[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14768]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     MUCH WORK LEFT IN AFGHANISTAN

  (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, last week, the minority leader said that the 
war in Afghanistan is over. That is news to most people, and even more 
so to our men and women fighting the remnants of the Taliban in 
Afghanistan.
  The comments were just the latest in a series of comments that show 
some people still do not get it. Her comments, like many others made 
recently by leaders of the opposition, demoralize American troops and 
incite our enemies. And, worse, they discount the great progress that 
our soldiers have made in the war on terror.
  Fifty million people have received freedom and are fighting for the 
future of their nation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just a few years ago, 
50 million people lived in tyranny in Iraq and Afghanistan, and today 
they live in the dawn of freedom.
  Much work is left, but writing off the efforts of our troops today, 
the sacrifice being made today, the Democratic leader writes off the 
quest for freedom and the necessity for us to support it. Why is that 
so hard to understand?

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