[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17465]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WHY ARE PEOPLE CONTINUING TO DIE IN IRAQ?

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, on May 1, the Commander in Chief of the 
United States military forces declared the war was over. Since that 
day, 65 people have died. The last three who died were Craig Boling, 
Elkhart, Indiana; Barry Sanford, Aurora, Colorado; Robert McKinley, 
Kokomo, Indiana.
  Huge questions have arisen about whether we were misled about this 
war. In Great Britain, the Prime Minister, Mr. Blair, faced 2 hours of 
questioning by the British Parliament. It is time for this Congress to 
have a bipartisan select committee to look into the reasons why we are 
in Iraq and why people continue to die there.

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  We must not let them be forgotten, as they were in my era of the 
Vietnam War. There is a wall with 50,000-some people on it. Their names 
were never read on the floor. They ought to be read here and not 
forgotten.

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