[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 8417-8418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MISSING COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

  (Mr. MEEKS of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning wondering 
where is the Commander in Chief?
  Our wartime President is missing in action. Our troops are being 
killed because of a lack of proper planning; and as one of the worst 
scandals involving our military is uncovered, George W. Bush is in Ohio 
flipping pancakes, and in Michigan, of all places, riding in a $1 
million bus made in Canada.

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  Where is our leadership from our President? It is AWOL.
  As the Bush campaign smear machine continues to attack and distort 
John Kerry's decorated Vietnam service record, which includes a Silver 
Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts, George Bush wants the 
American people to believe that he actually has a military record to be 
proud of. That is as believable as when the Commander in Chief landed 
on the deck of an aircraft carrier pretending to be a soldier.
  Perhaps the President's smear machine can explain where George Bush 
was the year he was missing during his military service, and his clear 
absence of leadership as a President, instead of cooking up phoney 
attacks on a decorated war hero like John Kerry.

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