[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15675]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               TERRORISM

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tell the Nation this fact: 
Right now, the world is less safe than it was a year ago, or even 
before the terrible events of September 11.
  We should be confronting violent extremism and people who want to 
destroy our life and our Nation. We should be chasing them around the 
world and giving them no rest or refuge.
  Yet, after nearly 5 years of the war on terror, where are we?
  The Taliban is growing stronger in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda is firmly 
entrenched in Iraq, where it never had been before. Hamas and Hezbollah 
are acting with impunity.
  This country needs a new strategy in the struggle with extremists, 
not one that is hamstrung by the mess in Iraq, sidetracked by political 
finger-pointing, or beholden to special oil interests.
  This country needs new leadership that will safeguard our children's 
future rather than send them to war without equipment that they need.
  This country needs a new direction, a direction that will make 
tomorrow safer than today. The American people deserve nothing less.

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