[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6817]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  IRAQ

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I would say I agree with my friend that 
the situation in Iraq is not a Vietnam. But it is Iraq. I would hope 
the comparisons made to Korea and Japan and Germany do not apply. We, 
of course, in Korea lost 55,000 troops there who died, with hundreds of 
thousands wounded and in Japan and Germany there were over half a 
million dead.
  I agree with my friend from Kentucky that we have to do what we can 
to come out of the situation we have in Iraq. We certainly are there. 
We have to give our troops everything they need. They are under 
tremendous pressure. The situation there in the past week has been very 
difficult. We have to, as a Congress, do everything we can to let them 
know we support everything they are doing, and to make sure they have 
all the equipment and supplies they need to do the very best they are 
trained to do.

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