[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 122 (Wednesday, September 12, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H5870]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          AMERICA UNDER ATTACK

  (Mr. BROOKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, in Egypt our Embassy walls were scaled and 
the American flag ripped apart. In Libya, America's Ambassador and 
three other Americans were brutally murdered.
  Ironically, our own Embassy in Egypt apologized by condemning 
Americans who exercised their religious and free speech rights as 
``misguided individuals who hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.'' 
The White House, rivaling the Keystone Cops of lore, distanced itself 
from its own State Department apology.
  Let's be clear. In Libya, this White House spent American treasury 
and risked American lives to topple Muammar Qadhafi, thus empowering 
those who killed our Ambassador.
  Not one to learn from history or its own mistakes, this White House 
says, America ``will work to support a Syrian opposition to hasten the 
day when Assad falls.''
  Mr. Speaker, we must stop spending our treasury and risking American 
lives for those who neither appreciate our sacrifices nor believe in 
basic liberties like freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
  Mr. Speaker, I pray the President is listening.

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