[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 29774]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     RESTORE DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam Speaker and Members of the 
House, President Bush must take a strong stand on the actions of 
President Musharraf in Pakistan. The constitution of Pakistan must be 
restored, and democratic rule must be given back to the people. If we 
fail to do that, then democracy fails in Pakistan and we will see the 
exact environment in which the Taliban, terrorists, al Qaeda and others 
are born. Witness Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
  The restoration of democracy immediately must be high on the agenda 
of the Bush administration. Failure to do so turns Pakistan into an 
armed dictatorship with a nuclear weapon.
  We have spent tens of billions of dollars in Pakistan to encourage 
their fight against terrorism and the Taliban. And what have we gotten 
in return? We now see that the military has started businesses with 
that money. They have used it to pad their retirement accounts. They 
have used it to run their private businesses rather than to defend the 
country and prosecute the war against al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other 
terrorists that are now in northern Pakistan.
  The choice is this administration's. They can speak out forcefully 
for democracy, or they can watch it wither on the vine and we will have 
another failed state in exactly a region where we don't need one.

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