[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4443]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, Columbus did not discover the trade route, 
but I am glad he made the journey. We did not find the weapons of mass 
destruction in Iraq, which we were so sure were there. Even John 
Edwards and John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and many of the leading Democrats 
who are so critical of this administration said 2 years ago there were 
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
  But aside from that, what we did find is nearly 400 mass graves of 
citizens who had disappeared from their families. We found women who 
had been raped, husbands and brothers who had disappeared, forced to 
join an Army or had their tongue cut out for saying the wrong thing. We 
found a very oppressed people. We have liberated those people.
  I believe what we have done in Iraq, we made the right decision, and 
I am very proud of the soldiers that are over there and the ones who 
have come home have done the job.
  I am proud to represent the 3rd Infantry that was so much a part of 
the campaign in the Euphrates River last year. I believe the worst 
thing we can do in Washington now, in the name of partisan politics, is 
to try to erode this victory in order to gain the White House.
  I hope we will all come together today and support this very 
important resolution in support of our troops.

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