[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 27, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H7500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  THE DEMOCRATS MAY NOT LIKE IT, BUT WE ARE WINNING THE GLOBAL WAR ON 
                                 TERROR

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, we have heard an awful lot in 
the last couple of days from the Democrats over the national 
intelligence estimate which partly says that our involvement in Iraq is 
creating a new generation of jihadist leaders.
  What they fail to say is that the same NIE says that, I quote, 
``Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves or be perceived to 
have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the 
fight.''
  Mr. Speaker, I want to remind my colleagues that one of those new 
leaders cited in the report, Abu Musaab al Zarqawi, is now very much 
dead. Let's just say that he has failed.
  The NIE says that the best way to kill the jihadist movement is to 
spread hope and democracy, which is exactly what we are doing in Iraq 
and Afghanistan.
  Mr. Speaker, national security is the first and foremost 
responsibility of the Federal Government and of every Member of 
Congress, and we always need to put national security ahead of 
politics. And yet, the Democratic minority leader just last week said 
that she thinks that national security should not be an issue in this 
campaign.
  She actually said that, that national security should not be an 
issue. Think about that.

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