[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20771]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE GLOBAL TEST IS A MISERABLE FAILURE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, Senator Kerry says that our Nation must pass 
a global test before engaging in military action to protect ourselves. 
I wonder who gets to administer the test.
  Certainly, Mr. Kerry would ask France and Germany for their opinions. 
Others would probably add Great Britain, Russia, China, and Japan to 
that list. Most certainly the U.N. and its member states would have a 
say where our military goes and why.
  Unfortunately, the American people would not in a global test. Mr. 
Kerry would probably ignore a group of Iraqi women who were here in 
Washington recently. They said the question is not why we removed 
Saddam Hussein from power, but what took us so long.
  An American President is accountable not to the world in how he 
protects this Nation, but to the American people who rely on him to act 
to protect them. Other countries should not be able to have veto power 
over our sovereignty.
  Senator Kerry's global test is a miserable failure of a policy idea.

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