[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16754]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               ERADICATE TERROR BY ERADICATING TERRORISTS

  (Mr. SWEENEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SWEENEY. Mr. Speaker, like all Americans, all America suffered 
losses yesterday, but for some of us it was more personal, since 
friends were lost in yesterday's incidents.
  Years from now, our grandchildren will ask where we were and what 
happened on September 11, 2001, but the most important question all 
will ask us was what we did about it. Our answer must be, and today we 
begin that process, and importantly begin that process, of recognizing 
that the only way to eradicate terror is to eradicate terrorists.
  As a New Yorker and an American, my outrage is only contained by the 
knowledge that the cowards who were responsible for this act will find 
themselves at the end of the swift fist of American justice. I see a 
united America, I see it in my district where people have pulled 
together to offer their equipment, to offer their prayers, to offer 
their blood. But let us make it clear that Americans are also saying 
they expect us to change, they expect us to move forward forcefully and 
end what we saw yesterday.

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