[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24750]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT WAR IN IRAQ

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to once again express my 
deep concern about this war in Iraq, which is a violent, endless 
quagmire. Those of us who dissent on this war support our troops. We 
honor our troops. We respect our troops. In fact, one of the things 
that we have tried to do is urge the other side of the aisle to provide 
budgets that actually support our troops when they come home.
  It is shameful that our veterans' budgets get slashed each and every 
year. If Members of Congress are going to send young men and women over 
to Iraq to fight in this war, we had better make sure that when they 
come back they have the resources they need to get on with their lives.
  We have lost 2,000 Americans in this war. There is no end in sight. 
There have been no weapons of mass destruction. There was no imminent 
threat. There was no nuclear threat. There was no tie to al Qaeda.
  This war has nothing to do with the War on Terror. In fact, it has 
diverted important resources from the overall war on terror. We need to 
get our priorities straight. We need to focus on the war on terror. Let 
us end this war in Iraq.

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