Newt at AIPAC

Published May 4, 2009 2:23pm ET



Jen Rubin has a write up of the speech here and you can see video of the speech here. Some key quotes:

The essence of his address was a refutation of the engagement approach to Iran. He bluntly stated, “We need to recognize that there are some regimes we will never be able to cut a deal with because they are in fact evil.”And as if that was not clear enough he explained, “Ahmadinejad if he gets the weapons will be every bit as evil as Hilter.” There is, he says, “civilization and anti-civilization” and both the Bush and Obama administrations, he contends, do a disservice by minimizing the dangers we face from an “anti-civilization” regime bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.

Also, Newt expanded on his speech in an interview with the Jerusalem Post:

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