[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14584]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           LET FREEDOM REIGN

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, last week was an important one for the 
United States and the world when Iraq once again became a sovereign 
nation. I found the transition of power to the Iraqi people to be very 
appropriate, timely and encouraging.
  I believe it was very telling when President Bush in his own hand 
wrote, ``Let freedom reign,'' just moments after receiving the notice 
of the transfer of power to the new Iraqi Government.
  As American citizens, we should be proud that the United States has 
aided the Iraqi people in their effort to live free of Saddam Hussein's 
terror. Through democracy, Iraq and the world can achieve peace and 
prosperity.
  When the Iraqi embassy raised their flag in Washington, D.C., for the 
first time in recent memory, it was a symbolic gesture for all of those 
in the free world to say, ``Let freedom reign.''

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