[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              IRAQ WAR UNDERMINES FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, increasingly Americans are realizing there 
is a better way to support our troops than just sending more of them 
off to be killed. Would that more here in Washington had a little of 
our troops' courage to stand up to the myth-based policies of this 
Administration.
  The good judgment of a strong majority of House Democrats, including 
the consistent position of our minority leader in opposing President 
Bush's original invasion of Iraq, was demonstrated again yesterday by a 
report from over 100 top foreign policy experts across the ideological 
spectrum.
  Eighty-seven percent of them said that the war in Iraq has a negative 
impact on protecting the American people, that it is undermining the 
war on terrorism. But ignoring their advice, ignoring one retired 
general after another, and ignoring the good sense of ordinary 
Americans across this country, the Administration has consistently 
pursued a policy that endangers our families' security.
  The price of the Administration's deaf ear, $229 million per day, and 
a price paid in the blood of others every day.

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