[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 23 (Wednesday, March 6, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE WAR ON TERROR

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Valdosta, Georgia, and Savannah, 
Georgia, received the sad news that four of our service members in the 
First Ranger Battalion were among those who were killed in Afghanistan. 
We join their families and the entire Nation in mourning their loss and 
appreciating their patriotism and sacrifice.
  But even as we do that, the criticism of the policy in Afghanistan by 
the Democrats continues. Jimmy Carter says that Bush's approach is too 
simplistic. Let us review time a minute. When the Soviets invaded 
Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter was President, and his very complicated reply 
was to boycott the Olympics. I guess that is not simplification, but 
what George Bush is in uniting a global front against terrorists, I 
guess that is simplistic. It is interesting that Mr. Carter only served 
one term.
  Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress are saying that the war will not be 
won or complete until we get Osama bin Laden. I guess they better 
explain that to World War II veterans because, after all, we never 
found Hitler, and they must think that we lost that war as well.
  I join Democrats, and I know it is not all the Democrats, there are a 
lot of good Democrats who are supporting this administration, but I 
invite the liberal extremist fringe in their party to support the 
President and to support our service members. This is a matter of 
freedom.

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