[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10449]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    GOOD WORK OF OUR TROOPS IN IRAQ

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, having just returned from 
Iraq, I can appreciate the great celebration for the outstanding work 
of the special forces in the bringing down of an enormous terrorist, 
Zarqawi. That is an important step.
  Most Americans will celebrate. And meeting personally the special 
forces both in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a day for commendation and 
respect. It is important, however, that we begin as well a detailed 
outlook and plan for having our soldiers be able to claim the victory 
that they should claim and begin, as soon as practicable, their return 
home.
  It is also important for the sovereign nation of Iraq to build up the 
Iraqi National Army, which our forces are training in an outstanding 
manner, and their police. It will only be when the Iraqi people believe 
that their own police and army can secure them that we will have the 
opportunity for that sovereign government to stand, and we must move as 
quickly and expeditiously as possible for them to understand that is 
their first priority.
  The real war is the war between Sunnis and Shiias. That is a civil 
war, and the Government of Iraq must solve that problem.

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