[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              ISIS MUST GO

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Louisiana (Mr. Abraham) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ABRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, it has now been 1,532 days since President 
Obama said Syria's Bashar Assad must go. Guess what? He is still there.
  It has been 789 days since President Obama drew the red line in the 
sand, so to speak, and told Assad not to use chemical weapons on his 
own people. Well, he ignored that. And he used chemical weapons, and he 
continues to use chemical weapons and kill his own people.
  What we are seeing in Syria--the rise of ISIS, the refugee crisis of 
tens of thousands of people, children having to migrate northward to 
get out of Syria, the civil war--are all the direct results of the 
President's unwillingness to stand by his word.
  Now Russia is in Syria. They are telling the U.S. on our own soil 
that America is weak. Look at what they have done in Ukraine. We didn't 
do anything but give rhetoric and words. Nothing to push Putin back to 
where he should be.
  America is losing her standing in the world, and we would rather 
appease our enemies than show our strength. This administration still 
has no strategy for handling ISIS, no tangible plan for defeating 
Assad, and seemingly no will to stand up to Russia's aggression.
  Assad must go. ISIS must go. ISIS must be defeated. America must 
stand firm and show the world we are a force to be reckoned with, not 
to be trampled on.
  

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