[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            FREEDOM IS WINNING, TERRORISM IS LOSING IN IRAQ

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it has been asked in some shrill tones this 
morning on the floor of this Congress, 2,000 American casualties in 
Iraq, and what do we have to show for it?
  Well, I would offer very humbly, what we have to show for it is a 
dictator behind bars, a terrorist haven vanquished, 100,000 Iraqis in 
uniform with another 100,000 yet being trained in the next year, 
millions freed from tyranny, national elections in January, and, as the 
headlines today attest, a constitution ratified in a new, free, and 
democratic Iraq. That is what we have to show for it.
  Because of the ongoing sacrifices of the American soldier, those at 
their post and those in glory, and their families, freedom is winning, 
terrorism is losing in Iraq.

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