[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4911]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

  (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, recently, a Democrat candidate for President 
was asked about his vote against the $87 billion that went to support 
our troops in Iraq and to build schools and hospitals for the Iraqi 
people. He said this: ``I voted for it before I voted against it.''
  This rhetoric is so typical of many who want to have it both ways. 
They vote to give President Bush the authority to send American troops 
into Iraq, to oust one of the most brutal dictators in history and a 
supporter of terrorism around the world; but now they say we never 
should have gone to Iraq, that it was unjustified that the President 
acted unilaterally.
  The fact is, on October 10, 2002, a bipartisan majority in this body 
voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. And then, in October of 
last year, we voted to supply our troops on the front lines. 
Unfortunately, many of the same people who voted to send our men and 
women off to war then voted against them when the time came to give 
them the resources they needed to do their job and get home safe. You 
cannot have it both ways, Mr. Speaker.

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