[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 61 (Wednesday, May 5, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MISSING COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

  (Mr. MEEKS of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning wondering 
where is the Commander in Chief?
  Our wartime President is missing in action. Our troops are being 
killed because of a lack of proper planning; and as one of the worst 
scandals involving our military is uncovered, George W. Bush is in Ohio 
flipping pancakes, and in Michigan, of all places, riding in a $1 
million bus made in Canada.
  Where is our leadership from our President? It is AWOL.
  As the Bush campaign smear machine continues to attack and distort 
John Kerry's decorated Vietnam service record, which includes a Silver 
Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts, George Bush wants the 
American people to believe that he actually has a military record to be 
proud of. That is as believable as when the Commander in Chief landed 
on the deck of an aircraft carrier pretending to be a soldier.
  Perhaps the President's smear machine can explain where George Bush 
was the year he was missing during his military service, and his clear 
absence of leadership as a President, instead of cooking up phoney 
attacks on a decorated war hero like John Kerry.

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