[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22654]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEMOCRATS SHOULD DENOUNCE WORDS OF DEAN

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, what some have referred to as the Democrat 
prancing ponies, others call the Democratic Presidential candidates, 
the leading candidate, Governor Dean, last week made a completely 
irresponsible, if not crazy, lunatic statement when he said that the 
United States of America should not take sides in the Middle East 
conflict between the Palestinian Authority and our ally, Israel.
  I want Members to think about this. The United States should not take 
sides in a classic strife of good versus evil. I do not know if he is 
speaking for the Democratic Party. He is the leading guy, it seems. I 
do not know what the good general might do to that dynamic amongst the 
prancing, but I do know this: There is one side which blows up innocent 
people coming back from the Western Wall praying. There are the wives 
and the loved ones of those people saying, I am glad that my husband, 
my son, my daughter died a martyr. We have one side that has repeatedly 
thrown the peace process off track and broken any peace treaties that 
were ever negotiated. Clearly, because of this, we have an evil side 
versus a side that is trying to be part of the world community.
  Mr. Speaker, I call on the Democrats of this House to denounce the 
words of Governor Dean and ask that the United States of America 
continue to side with our great ally, the nation of Israel.

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