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




             NO NEED FOR FLIP-FLOPPING IN THE WAR ON TERROR

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the sound you hear on the other side of the 
aisle is the sound of flip-flopping. Democrats may have put off 
announcing their agenda, but they have managed to perfect the art of 
the flip-flop.
  Just this week the minority leader stated that she voted against the 
war in Iraq because she had seen the intelligence and it did not 
support the threat being claimed by the Bush administration.
  Strangely, the minority leader had a different opinion during the 
debate leading up to the vote authorizing the use of military force. 
Then she said that she was aware that Saddam Hussein was engaging in 
the development of weapons of mass destruction ``which is a threat to 
countries in the region,'' and that there was no question he had 
chemical and biological weapons.
  Flash forward to this week, and the minority leader stated that there 
was never anything in the intelligence that Iraq posed an imminent 
threat. Mr. Speaker, which is it? As we begin this debate on Iraq and 
the war on terror, the American people need decisiveness, not flip-
flopping. Republicans want to step up and meet the challenge. It is now 
time for the Democrats to do the same.

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