[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 21, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SEPTEMBER 11 PROGNOSTICATING

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, there are people in Washington who treat 
politics like a sport, and sometimes it gets rough. That should be no 
surprise. But some things should be off limits.
  Mr. Speaker, for 8 months our country has been at war. It is a war 
that began when 19 evil men turned jumbo jets into missiles and killed 
3,000 innocent people because they were Americans. Our President has 
led the world in a quest for justice. American soldiers are fighting 
and dying to keep the world safe, and President Bush has the awesome 
and heavy responsibility of commanding them.
  But there is an election around the bend and some of our friends on 
the other side of the aisle have decided it is time to start attacking 
the President. They are attacking him for not making predictions he 
could not reasonably have made. They are attacking him for not 
connecting the dots between thousands of intelligence briefings that 
none of them could have connected either.
  Mr. Speaker, this is wrong. When our fighting men and women are 
risking everything to keep us safe, the least we can do is to put 
partisanship aside.

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