Senate Bill sb2818

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SM 2818

    By Senator Haridopolos





    26-1390-04

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial requesting the Congressional

  3         Delegation of the State of Florida to support

  4         the President's effort to protect the United

  5         States from terrorists and prevent the

  6         proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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  8         WHEREAS, in the immortal words of former President

  9  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "When you see a rattlesnake poised

10  to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you

11  crush him," and

12         WHEREAS, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,

13  showed that new deadly challenges have emerged from rogue

14  states and terrorist, and

15         WHEREAS, the proliferation of weapons of mass

16  destruction has fundamentally changed the nature of threats

17  against the United States and our allies, and

18         WHEREAS, a coordinated chemical, biological, or nuclear

19  attack against the United States or our allies will cost the

20  lives of millions of innocent Americans and other individuals,

21  as well as cause immeasurable damage to the economy of the

22  world and the United States, and

23         WHEREAS, the United States cannot wait patiently and

24  allow radical regimes that support terrorism to acquire or

25  manufacture illegal weapons of mass destruction and pass them

26  onto terrorist organizations, and

27         WHEREAS, if the United States does not meet this

28  terrorist threat in the streets of Baghdad and Kandahar,

29  Americans will be forced to fight them in Boston and Kansas

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SM 2818
    26-1390-04




 1         WHEREAS, President Bush has correctly stated that the

 2  Unites Sates has the right to defend the United States or our

 3  allies if the world community refuses to enforce the rule of

 4  law to deter or remove future threats from tyrannical regimes

 5  and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, NOW,

 6  THEREFORE,

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 8  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         That Florida's Representatives and Senators to the

11  Congress of the United States are requested to support

12  President Bush and his efforts to keep the United States and

13  our allies safe from terrorist, dangerous authoritarian

14  regimes, and weapons of mass destruction.

15         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

16  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

17  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

18  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

19  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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