[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18040]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  REPUBLICANS PREFER TO PLAY POLITICS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, this week Republicans have turned to their 
two favorite political tactics: Smear and fear. It is bad enough that 
President Bush chose to use a 9/11 anniversary speech on Monday night 
not to unite this Nation with facts but instead to once again divide us 
by using his bully pulpit to instill fear into Americans with 
misleading statements.
  Just 2 weeks ago the President said Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, 
but once again on Monday night he spent the majority of his speech in 
the Oval Office talking about Iraq.
  Why would the President talk about Iraq if he knows it had nothing to 
do with 9/11?
  Mr. Speaker, he is trying to blur the issue so Americans will 
continue to tolerate his failed stay-the-course strategy that a 
majority of Americans have already rejected.
  Democrats want a new direction for Iraq, with the responsible 
redeployment of U.S. troops beginning this year, in order to strongly 
position America to confront the global challenge of terrorism. Unlike 
the administration's current plan, our real security plan is a strategy 
for taking the fight to the terrorists to better protect Americans.

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