forsake violence, and they were given a solemn promise by my country, and for many of you, your country, that they would be protected. A solemn promise that they would be protected. They were given the word of the United States of America, which to me is sacred.

And then in 2008, 2009, they were turned over to the tender mercies of Maliki Iraq with the same promise. And that promise has been broken. America has turned its back on making sure that Iraq lives up to the commitments that were made. You can't say anything different than that otherwise those forty-seven people would not have been murdered, those thousands of people would not have been injured.

By the way, that's one-third of the population of Camp Ashraf were eithervery significant things he did during his presidency, he guided us through the Cuban Missile Crisis. All of us of our age will remember it as a time at which we all thought we were going to go to nuclear war. Why didn't we go to nuclear war? Because ultimately e had rational people on both sides. Ultimately, even though Cruchef was a very bad man and a dictator and an oppressor, he was a rational man and he didn't want to destroy himself and destroy his country. He was not an insane, religious maniac. He was a lot of things, but he wasn't that. So faced with the possibility of a nuclear conflict the United States of America, he backed down and understood that you couldn't do