[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 21 (Tuesday, March 1, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SUCCESS STRATEGY FOR IRAQ

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in speaking to one of my 
constituents, he offered to tell me that his son was a member of the 
United States military and had just returned from Afghanistan and was a 
willing member of this great and wonderful dedicated military ready to 
go back and do his duty.
  As I listened to him with a sense of pride, but also a parental sense 
of doubt, I could understand because we are looking now at 115 killed 
by a bomb outside an Iraqi clinic.
  Let me read for you a quote: ``I am afraid,'' said Qasmin, 34. ``This 
place should have been well protected. How could the police or Army not 
recognize that? Don't they know this country is full of terrorism?''
  Mr. Speaker, this administration owes us an explanation or a 
statement regarding the so-called success strategy that will allow our 
troops to return with dignity.
  We want success in Iraq. But the constant bloodshed, the loss of 
lives of young men and women, the children of our American families 
going overseas with no road map, no design, no success strategy that 
will bring them home. We are owed a debate on the floor of the House to 
determine how we can resolve this matter to bring our troops home and 
have a success strategy and peace in Iraq. My sympathy to those 
families who lost their love ones.

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