[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               BRITS RESPOND WITH RESOLVE, DETERMINATION

  (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, July 7 in Britain is not the same as March 11 
in Spain. Last week's terrorist attacks were met not with blame, self-
loathing, and retreat. They were met with proper expressions of 
mourning, steely resolve, and clarion calls for justice. I would expect 
nothing else from the country that withstood the onslaught of the 
Nazis.
  And while all of Great Britain mourns, our friends across the 
Atlantic should be commended for the face of resolve they have shown in 
recent days. This resolve was best expressed by London's mayor when he 
told the terrorists: ``Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will 
fail.''
  If terrorists thought that the murder of innocent people would 
further their aims, they picked the wrong country to target. Giving 
terrorists safe haven in the name of tolerance only encourages the 
violent intolerance expressed most vividly in last week's attacks. 
These attacks again demonstrate the reason everyone needs to root out 
these barbarians.

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