[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 150 (Tuesday, August 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4416]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ATROCITY IN AFGHANISTAN

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, we got a couple of calls at the office 
today. We got numerous calls. But two veterans fighting in Afghanistan 
wept in the calls about the sacrifices that they made, the friends they 
had lost fighting in Afghanistan, and the Afghan people.
  I have been meeting with Northern Alliance leaders for a decade or 
so. They have asked not that we stay forever. We couldn't do that, and 
they didn't want us to do that. But they said: Whatever you do, leave 
us in a position to fight the Taliban when you are gone because if you 
don't, they will kill every one of us who fought for you and with you, 
and then there will be nobody to fight them after you are hit worse 
than you were on 9/11.
  This is an atrocity. Let's leave the Northern Alliance the weapons 
that the Taliban should never have, and let's get the Americans out.

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