[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16167-16168]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CALLING FOR CEASE-FIRE IN LEBANON

  (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, yesterday a number of countries met in 
Rome and they discussed what ought to happen between or in Lebanon, and 
they came to a decision there ought to be a cease-fire, except one 
country said no, it was the United States of America.
  Mr. Speaker, how can it be that the United States of America can 
condone the continuation of people dying on both sides of the line? The 
explanation of who started it or who won't stop or

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who is at fault or when it started or all that must be decided at a 
peace table. As long as people are dying, the peace table is going to 
be harder and harder and harder to work out. The sooner we bring the 
parties to the table, the better off the whole world will be, not just 
Lebanese, not Israelis, everyone in the world will be better off if we 
have a cease-fire. Please, Mr. President, listen to us.

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