[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11617]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I was regrettably unable to be on 
the House Floor for rollcall vote 288, final passage of H. Res. 861: 
Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on 
Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary. 
Had I been able to be here I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall vote 
288.
  We are in a world war against terrorism, a world war, and Iraq is a 
major battlefield of that war right now. The reason we are not being 
attacked in large part here in the United States, in my opinion, is 
because our your men and women in uniform serving in Iraq are making 
sacrifices over there, in the middle of the storm, where terrorism has 
its genesis, where Iran and Syria and other countries are supporting 
terrorism. The terrorists and their state-sponsors do not want 
democracy to flourish over there, because they know their days will be 
numbered if democracy succeeds. The killing of Al Qaeda leader Abu 
Musab al-Zarqawi shows that our young men and women fighting over there 
are making the terrorist days numbered, in my opinion.
  I would like to just make one quote from Sir Winston Churchill, when 
I think about my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and they 
start talking about how we have to get out of there right now. Sir 
Winston Churchill, who was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th 
century, he said in a speech that he made entitled ``We Shall Fight on 
the Beaches,'' which is very famous, he says: ``Wars are not won by 
evacuations.'' You do not win by retreating.

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