[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29260]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 WE SHOULD BE SUPPORTING PRESIDENT BUSH

  (Mr. BURTON Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the liberal media and my liberal 
colleagues are attacking the President for protecting America. The 
wiretaps that he has ordered are legal, and he informed the 
Intelligence Committees 12 times about them.
  What are we going to do? Are we going to wait around until terrorists 
attack us and then say we ought to check what they are saying on the 
telephone to their al Qaeda buddies?
  The fact of the matter is the President is defending the United 
States of America, and we should be supporting him.
  The PATRIOT Act, which is being stuck in the Senate, needs to be 
passed. We need to get these guys and stop them before they attack 
buildings in New York or Indianapolis or California or Washington, 
D.C., and the President wants to do that. That is why the PATRIOT Act 
is so important.
  Let's talk about torture. Putting a guy on a water board who is about 
to blow up a bunch of soldiers in Baghdad and holding him under the 
water for a little bit to make him tell us what he is going to do or if 
he is going to cut somebody's head off that is an innocent civilian, or 
go into a school and blow up a bunch of kids is not what I call 
terrible. We are not pulling out their fingernails or cutting off their 
heads. We need to put pressure on them to tell us what's going on so we 
can save Americans and American troops.
  This is a war. It is not a tea party. And we need to win it. The 
President is doing the right thing, and we need to support him. God 
bless President Bush.

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