[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 53 (Thursday, April 22, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2299]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TROUBLING REMARKS BY JOHN KERRY

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today also to highlight some very 
troubling remarks by John Kerry, who is now seeking the Presidency of 
the United States, our Commander-in-Chief.
  In 1971, Kerry testified before a Senate committee that communism was 
not a real threat to the United States. He went so far as to say that 
the U.S. was ``reacting under Cold War precepts which are no longer 
applicable.''
  Mr. Speaker, that was 1971. I think we can all agree the Cold War was 
very much applicable and continued to be for the next two decades.
  Now John Kerry has the gall to compare our efforts in Iraq to 
Vietnam.
  Mr. Speaker, as a veteran of Vietnam War, I take great offense to Mr. 
Kerry's statements, then and now. Our efforts in Iraq have liberated 
millions of civilians from a brutal dictator that has used weapons of 
mass destruction against his own people.
  The world is a safer place without Saddam Hussein in power, and the 
United States is a safer place with President Bush as Commander-in-
Chief.

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