[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8063]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WAR AND PSYCHOLOGY

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I want to quote this morning from an 
article by Mona Charen, ``War and Psychology,'' in which she says: 
```War never solves anything.' So say dozens of callers to C-SPAN'' all 
day long ``and left-leaning radio programs.''
  ``The answer to this argument, if you can call it an argument, could 
almost fit on a bumper sticker: Apart from securing American 
independence, ending slavery, and defeating Nazism and Communism, `war 
has never solved anything,''' so the liberals say.
  ``Anti-war activists tell us that Iraq is a distraction from the more 
important war against global terrorism. This argument has been dealt a 
serious blow by the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.''
  Frankly, Mr. Speaker, war does solve many things; but we have to win 
them, and this one we will win.

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