[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 19, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H6663]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     POLITICIZING THE WAR ON TERROR

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, I rise today to challenge my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle. They continue to pound the drums and 
politicize the war on terror and unnecessarily criticize the 
administration. Yet they have no plan or any indication of one for how 
they would make our Nation more secure.
  As the President said last week in his press conference, he wakes up 
every day to a thorough intelligence briefing that informs of the 
actions of numerous Islamo-fascists and others whose only goal is to 
destroy America, our freedoms and our way of life. He must respond to 
those threats.
  The President is not politicizing the war on terror. He is simply 
carrying out his duty to protect and defend this Nation and 
constructing plans to ensure that our Nation is safer from potential 
terrorist attacks, and thus far it has been. As we all know, there has 
been no attack on American soil since 9/11, but many attempts have been 
thwarted.
  This is not, and should not be, a political issue, and it is time for 
the Democrats to stop trying to make it one. This is about national 
security, and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle need to 
realize what is at stake here.

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