[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23247]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1015
                  A LOOK AT U.S. DAILY DEATHS 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, in the next few days, we will hear people 
say that if you do not support that $87 billion, you are against the 
troops and you do not care what is happening to our people in Iraq.
  The fact is that since this war started, 304 people have died. Mr. 
Speaker, 167 have died since the President announced that the mission 
was accomplished. And now they want us to give them a blank check with 
$87 billion. They will not change one single thing. They will not 
acknowledge anything with the international community; they will not 
change anything.
  Mr. Speaker, Sergeant Lunsford Brown died on September 20. Captain 
Brian Faunce died on September 18. Sergeant David Freidrich died on 
September 20. Sergeant Paul Sturino died on September 22. They continue 
to die, and the President will not tell us how he is going to get us 
out of this morass, except give me more money or you are unpatriotic.
  Members in this House who want to ask questions are not unpatriotic. 
The people who make those kinds of charges ought to stand down here and 
tell people what they did when their chance came.
  Some of us served. I was not in Vietnam, but I was in the hospitals 
dealing with people who came back. Everybody in this body ought to go 
out to Walter Reed and walk around Unit 56 and look at those amputees 
and talk to them.

                          ____________________