[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H5498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                AMERICA MUST WAGE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, our hearts are filled with sympathy for the 
victims of what looks like the greatest loss of life on American soil 
since our Civil War, I fear greater even than Pearl Harbor.
  After Pearl Harbor, there were a few timid souls who said that we 
should appease our attackers by changing our policy in the Far East and 
conclude a quick peace. Instead, the greatest generation waged the 
greatest war, made the greatest sacrifices, and won the greatest 
victory.
  Today, we cannot even talk about appeasing the murderers by 
abandoning our friends in the Middle East. We instead must wage a war 
against terrorism, all terrorist groups; and we must remember that our 
war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims. Our last three wars 
were to protect the Muslim people of Kuwait, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
  We must demand that Afghanistan send Osama bin Laden to the United 
States for trial for what he did at Yemen and what he did in East 
Africa; and if they do not, we should aid the Northern Alliance.

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