[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 62 (Thursday, May 6, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H2660]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this morning the news 
indicates that some of our Democrats have politicized the war in Iraq. 
It is a war against terrorism. We have got to support our troops. Our 
Secretary of Defense is doing a super job.
  The question is, are we here in the United States of America as 
citizens going to support them to the hilt? When I was in Vietnam as a 
POW, we were scared to death that the United States was going to turn 
on us, politicize it and end it without getting us out.
  They did get us out of Vietnam, but they did not get all of our 
people out of Cambodia and Laos, and it was because of the peaceniks 
who did not believe we could win.
  We have to support our troops. Our freedom, our Nation, our liberty 
depend on it. God bless the United States.

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