[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4243]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss the resolution that is 
before the House. It is a resolution in two parts. The first part says 
we support the troops. The second part says we are not going to 
reinforce the troops. That is kind of curious in a way, I suppose, 
isn't it? That we would support them with up-armored Humvees, with body 
armor, with tanks, but oh, no, we are not going to allow other troops 
to help the troops that we have there. It seems like you can't have it 
both ways. It is self-contradictory.
  You picture Davey Crockett at the Alamo, and he is there and Santa 
Anna's army has got him back to the wall, and he gets his BlackBerry 
out and he checks with the Congress, and the Congress says, yeah, Davey 
Crockett, we support you, but we're not going to send anybody to help. 
I don't think you can have it both ways.
  When I was a legislator in the State of Missouri, I kept track of 
some of what I considered to be the silliest legislation I had seen. 
One of them was this lady who got so enthused about volunteering, that 
she created a bill called ``Mandatory Volunteerism.'' That was odd. And 
here we go, we are saying support, but don't support. This is curious, 
and it undermines people like my son, who has served in Fallujah.

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