[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 127 (Friday, October 8, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H8862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         FOG OF WAR HAS SET IN

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, in the past 24 hours, AT&T announced it is 
cutting an additional 7,000 workers, Bank of America is laying off an 
additional 4,500 employees, and Unisys 1,400, and 18,000 manufacturing 
jobs last month alone were lost. Less than an hour ago, the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics announced the economy added a paltry 96,000 jobs. Oil 
prices are above $50 a barrel. Since 2000, 5 million more Americans 
have entered the rolls of poverty. Bankruptcies are up more than a 
third. College and health care costs have each gone up by a third in 
the last 3 years, yet President Bush says we are making steady progress 
on the economy.
  In Iraq, the numbers of attacks are increasing daily. Nearly 1,100 
Americans have been killed and Republican Senators McCain, Lugar and 
Hagel have said Iraq is a mess.
  America is stuck in an endless occupation and a jobless economy, yet 
the word ``progress'' is how President Bush described the situation. 
Time after time this administration has tried to bend reality to its 
ideology. Usually, the fog of war sets in on the battlefield, but it 
appears the fog of war has set in at the White House.

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