[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4379-4380]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       THE CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, last week the leading Democrat 
Presidential nominee called the Bush administration a bunch of crooks 
and liars. Not one single Democrat stood up to say, ``Mr. Kerry, you've 
gone too far.'' An apology is in order.
  And now this week the quote of the month was that he is saying that 
leading international leaders are asking

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him to become President of the United States, saying that you, quote, 
have to beat this guy. I am sure that was the case a year ago when 
Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq. I am sure he would prefer 
somebody besides George Bush in the White House. And I am sure the same 
thing could be said in Afghanistan with the Taliban and Mullah Omar. I 
am sure they would prefer somebody besides George Bush in the White 
House.
  But the ridiculous thing is that here we are at war. And while we 
have a candidate from the Democrat side who wants to call the President 
of the United States a crook and a liar, do you not think it is a slap 
in the face to the troops to be saying that then the foreign 
international leaders want somebody else to be President, they want me 
to be President? Of course it is ironic when asked who these were, no 
names came forward. What meetings has he attended? None are on his 
calendar. What trips has he taken? None since 2002. I guess it is just 
going to be a year of hot rhetoric until Bush gets reelected.

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