[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 2, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H2591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           WAR AND PSYCHOLOGY

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I want to quote this morning from an 
article by Mona Charen, ``War and Psychology,'' in which she says: `` 
`War never solves anything.' So say dozens of callers to C-SPAN'' all 
day long ``and left-leaning radio programs.''
  ``The answer to this argument, if you can call it an argument, could 
almost fit on a bumper sticker. Apart from securing American 
independence, ending slavery, and defeating Nazism and Communism, `war 
has never solved anything,' so the liberals say.
  ``Anti-war activists tell us that Iraq is a distraction from the more 
important war against global terrorism. This argument has been dealt a 
serious blow by the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.''
  Frankly, Mr. Speaker, war does solve many things; but we have to win 
them, and this one we will win.

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