[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13845]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DOING HALF THE JOB

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, one of my colleagues just came back from 
Iraq. He brought with him a quote from a Special Ops officer who is 
operating in that country. This man said this: ``We are not going to 
kill our way to victory.''
  Now, if you look at what has gone on in the last 5 years, this 
Congress has allowed the President to go into Afghanistan, do half the 
job, cut and run to go to Iraq to a war that had no purpose. They took 
out Saddam Hussein, the President landed on the Abraham Lincoln and 
said ``Mission Accomplished.''
  In fact he was right, they got rid of Saddam, but they have been 
fighting a war of occupation for 4 years. When the President landed on 
the Abraham Lincoln, 141 people had died; and now, 2,400 more have died 
in this war of occupation with no plan to end it, no plan to get out of 
it, and no end in sight.
  This President should be taken out of office. We can't do that, but 
there is an election coming in November of this year to take out the 
Republican leadership of the House.

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