[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29695]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRIP TO GREAT BRITAIN

  (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, King George II's return to Great Britain 
reminds me of the return of Richard the Lionheart from the Crusades. 
The President is coming back to England. He says he is going to meet 
with the families of the bereaved from 9/11. Apparently, he does not 
know that 400 people have died in the United States in their service in 
Iraq. He has never seen fit to meet with them.
  In less than 1 year, we have lost more people in Iraq than we lost in 
3 years in the Vietnam War. But the President has a secret plan he is 
now revealing. His secret plan is that he is going to declare victory 
and have the troops out by June 1.
  Mr. Speaker, this President is leading us over the cliff with no 
respect for the people that he has put in harm's way. He ought to come 
up to Walter Reed and visit the wounded and then go out and visit some 
of the families that have lost people in Iraq. To do less than that is 
to ignore the sacrifice they have made.

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