[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14601]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY ISIS, YOU MUST DESTROY BASHAR AL-ASSAD

  (Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I didn't intend to speak 
today, but I just wanted to remind the American people, as I hear that 
the United States is about to enter talks with Russia over their 
presence in the Middle East, Russia is there for one reason. They are 
there to prop up a man named Bashar al-Assad, who has killed a quarter 
million of his own people.
  Many of those people that Bashar al-Assad has killed include women 
and children. These children may look different or speak a different 
language, in some cases, than in the United States, but these are 
children with the same dreams as many American children. They may want 
to grow up to be police officers or teachers or doctors or pharmacists 
or work on the family farm and raise a family. These are young lives 
that have been snuffed out by the barrel bombs of this evil dictator.
  As we wrestle with the failures in the Middle East and what to do 
with it, let me remind the American people that the choice is not 
between ISIS or Assad, but the choice is if you want to destroy ISIS, 
you must destroy Bashar al-Assad.

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