[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 98 (Monday, July 24, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H5570]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PEACE, PEACE, AT ANY PRICE PEACE?
(Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, people cry peace, peace. But there can be no
peace as long as there is one side that enjoys the shooting and refuses
to stop.
Hezbollah, a gang of psychothugs and criminals, kidnapped Israelis
and are firing rockets from their hole in the wall in southern Lebanon
into Israel. Israel has responded and their commanders say they are
going to take out these terrorists.
Now appeasement peaceniks who believe in peace at any price, like
France's Chirac, want Israel to stop and talk things over, probably
over a bottle of French wine.
But Hezbollah won't stop shooting. These are the same pseudopeace
experts that told Israel to withdraw from occupying Lebanon. Israel did
just that back in 2000, then gave up Gaza to the Palestinians so there
would be so-called land for peace.
But the terrorists in Gaza, Hamas, are shooting rockets into southern
Israel, while Hezbollah terrorists, still in Lebanon, are shooting
rockets into northern Israel. And the world's peace police still whine
for harmony.
Mr. Speaker, you make peace by making the terrorist criminals stop
shooting. Here guns talk louder than appeasement words. And that's just
the way it is.
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