[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18712]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  IRAQ

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I came here this morning to chastise the 
Republican majority for their failure to act on the minimum wage, but 
one of my colleagues said something so outrageous and indecent that it 
demands an answer.
  One of my colleagues lauded President Bush's action on security and 
foreign policy, asserting that we hadn't had any losses since September 
11, that we hadn't been attacked.
  We have been attacked in Baghdad. We have been attacked in Mosul. We 
have been attacked in Tikrit. We are being attacked every single day, 
because this President and this do-nothing Congress has sent our troops 
and our finest men and women, our sons and daughters, our husbands and 
wives, into harm's way, where they never should have been in Iraq. We 
have lost 2,600-plus. We have had 15,000 of them limping around America 
because of the absurdly incompetent, ineffective, boneheaded decisions 
by this President and this Congress which has allowed them to go into 
harm's way.
  Those who sit there and pat themselves on the back and say that we 
have had unalloyed success have done a disrespect to the fallen in 
Iraq. They shouldn't stand here and pat themselves on the back. They 
should be covered in shame for their failure to hold this President 
accountable for the competence we need in Iraq.

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