[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19093]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               BE AFRAID

  (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, today, we had hoped to hear a realistic 
assessment of Iraq, but unfortunately, although the voice was 
different, the words were the same. We just heard the administration's 
Iraqi administrator say what the administration says over and over 
again: Be afraid.
  With no plan to win the peace and no grasp on the magnitude of the 
chaos in Iraq, the administration relies on fear and photo ops to 
divert attention, trying to get Americans to forget the deception, 
incompetence and outright failure this administration used to turn the 
country upside down. They cannot stop what Americans see and read, so 
they try to preempt it, using the two words that define this 
administration: Be afraid.
  Be afraid is their answer to the economy, the war, the deficit, the 
people without health care and Iraq in complete chaos.
  Be afraid is what they say, but what they mean is, be afraid of them. 
Do not forget to vote on November 2.

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