[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2587]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WE SHOULD DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Turkish Government took its 
troops into northern Iraq and went after their nemesis, the terrorist, 
the PKK. They defeated, destroyed, and killed a great number of the PKK 
who've killed over 40,000 Turks since the 1980s and what is possibly 
the greatest terrorist group to attack a sovereign country.
  Our Secretary of Defense Gates is going to be in Turkey today and has 
said he will tell the Turks to make their foray short, a matter of 
days, weeks, not months, and to respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi 
Government. I can only imagine what the Turks will tell Secretary 
Gates. Do as I say, not as I do. For have we respected the sovereignty 
of the Iraqi Government? Has our foray been short? Can we afford to 
lose more blood and more dollars in a losing attack in Iraq?
  I submit to Secretary Gates, Mr. Speaker, we should do as we say, not 
as we do.

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