[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H5613-H5614]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


   TAKING ISSUE WITH STATEMENT THAT U.S. SOLDIERS DIED IN SERVICE OF 
                             UNITED NATIONS

  (Mr. FUNDERBURK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FUNDERBURK. Mr. Speaker, last year when American soldiers were 
killed over Iraq, the Vice President of the United States had the 
temerity to tell the widows and orphans of those men that ``they died 
in the service of the United Nations.'' Mr. Speaker, I can't think of a 
more outrageous statement made by any American official in years.
  American blood has been spilled on countless battlefields around the 
globe. Americans have died to protect their homes and families and to 
save the world from communism not for some faceless U.N. bureaucrat. I 
never read that Douglas MacArthur told the men at Inchon to hit the 
beach for the United Nations or that marines at Khe Sahn endured hell 
wearing blue helmets. America must never surrender its sovereignty to 
the one world fantasies of Mr. Boutros-Ghali and his acolytes in the 
White House. [[Page H5614]] 
  Before Mr. Clinton marches into Bosnia for the United Nations, he 
should remember what Secretary of State John Quincy Adams said:

       We are the friends of liberty everywhere, the guardians 
     only of our own.

  Mr. Speaker, I hope they read those words down at the White House 
before they tell another American family that its husband, father, son, 
or brother died in the service of the United Nations.

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