[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WHATEVER IT TAKES

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, the book on terrorism has a chapter in it 
called ``Iraq.'' You cannot close the book on terrorism until you close 
the chapter on Iraq.
  It saddens me that the Democrat leaders have now joined the ranks of 
the French and Spanish in calling the war in Iraq unwinnable. That is 
not what our troops told me when I visited them in Iraq. I asked a 
soldier what did he think about being in Iraq where all the terrorists 
are congregating from around the Middle East.
  He said, this is where we ought to be. He said, this is the only 
place in the globe where every American carries a gun.
  That war is winnable. We must support our troops. We must do like the 
firemen in New York City said on September 12 when they spoke to the 
President: do whatever it takes. We must do whatever it takes to win, 
and we will win.
  God bless America.

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