[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24074]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TARGET: U.S. AIR BASE

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, apparently the U.S. air base at Ramstein, 
Germany, and the Frankfurt airport were targets last week of a foiled 
terrorist attack.
  German authorities arrested three outlaws as they were mixing 
chemicals to make explosives. And guess what, all three individuals 
were Islamic radicals belonging to a fringe group called Islamic Jihad 
Union linked to al Qaeda--yet another example of criminals who kill in 
the name of religion and hate.
  These Islamic radicals don't believe in building a better world, but 
believe in blowing it up. The war on terror is a global war whether we 
like it or not, and a fight between civilization and the uncivilized. 
It is a fight over life versus death. It is a fight over peace versus 
anarchy. It is a fight over the right to be left alone versus chaos. 
The international terrorists who wish to kill Americans must be tracked 
down wherever they are and dealt with as law and justice demands.
  Those Americans who fail to acknowledge who these criminals are and 
have us retreat from this world conflict know little about the way the 
world is and seemingly live blissfully ignorant in the world of never, 
never land.
  And that's just the way it is.

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