[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11192]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         RUBBER-STAMP CONGRESS

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I brought my rubber stamp to the floor 
today because I want to remind everyone that tomorrow you have got to 
bring your rubber stamps to endorse the President's proposal in Iraq.
  The majority leader's plan is nothing more than let us do more of the 
same. Now, there is no plan from the White House. What they say, and 
listen to these words, when the Iraqis stand up we will stand down.
  That gives the control to the clerics, from the Shiia and the Sunni. 
When they stop the civil war, then we can come home. We have put our 
troops under the control of the Sunni and Shiia clerics in Iraq. That 
is not supporting the troops.
  We have to have a plan about when they come home. We will decide. We 
say there are 250,000 trained. And there are only 20,000 of those 
insurgents out there. How many do they have to train before they can 
handle 20,000 insurgents?
  Well, the Iraqi clerics will tell us. Do not forget your rubber stamp 
tomorrow.

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