[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9204-9205]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BRING THE TROOPS HOME

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, during the break, I was home in my district 
in Memphis, Tennessee, and I spoke to 40 soldiers who had been to the 
Middle East. They were being honored. I asked many of them if they 
wanted to return. Most, nearly all, said, ``No. Why are we there and 
what are we accomplishing?''
  I asked groups about their thoughts, and almost to a one, they said, 
``Bring the troops home; don't stay the course.''
  Mr. Speaker, I would submit to the President that he went to war 
under Donald Rumsfeld's opinion that you fight the war with the troops 
you have got.
  Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that the President should support the 
troops with the bill that the Congress sends him. We have sent him a 
bill that supports the troops, supports the veterans and, yet, brings 
our troops home.

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We must end this foolishness in Iraq, the loss of American lives and 
the spending of our tax dollars in a country where we are not wanted.

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