[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 78 (Friday, June 16, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H4138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        BOGUS RESOLUTION ON IRAQ

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, Republican leaders say that this 
unamendable, nonbinding, purely oratory resolution crafted behind 
closed doors is a referendum on the war on terror. And it is, but not 
in the way they characterize it.
  It is a blanket endorsement of the failed policies, of the diversion 
of troops and resources from Afghanistan, and the effort to eradicate 
the Taliban, al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Remember him, the leader of 
the 9/11 plot? We have not heard much about Osama bin Laden. He is 
still out there.
  It is about the redirection of the bulk of our military intelligence 
efforts to an unnecessary, preemptive war against the bloody, loathsome 
dictator who did not have weapons of mass destruction, was not involved 
in 9/11, was contained, and no direct threat to the United States.
  Secretary Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney said we would be in and out 
of Iraq in 90 days. Three years, 3 months later, 2,500 dead, we are 
still there in the middle of a civil war.
  A vote for this resolution is a vote to stay the course, 
unconditionally, indefinitely in Iraq, and leave our troops in the 
middle of that war. You should not support it. If you want to lead our 
troops out of the middle of a civil war in Iraq, redeploy and redirect 
these efforts to a more productive use of our Nation's resources and 
put an end to al Qaeda and the Taliban once and for all.

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