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Extensions of Remarks E1665 HON. ALCEE L July 31, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1665 women for this sacrifices they have have nals know that they cannot succeed as long If America is gone from Iraq, will that in- made in this war and rebuked the defeatists as American troops are in Iraq helping good sane fanatic from Iran, Ahmadinejad press who would set an arbitrary date for surrender. people form a democracy. the button that will lead to a premature Ar- Therefore, I respectfully submit the text of These criminals hide in the casbahs and mageddon in Israel? mountains while promoting their lackeys to A hundred years ago, when Teddy Roo- Mr. Wham’s speech for the RECORD in the kill themselves and others, hoping that such sevelt was President, he spoke these words hopes that others will stand with him in sup- killings will aid the second-guessers in about this nation’s destiny: ‘‘We have no port of our troops and the mission for which America to oppose the Commander-in-Chief choice as to whether or not we shall play a they fight. by insisting on a day of surrender—a day to great part in the world. That is already the [From the Sentinel, May 8, 2007] leave the Middle East—a day to quit any re- case. ‘‘All that we can decide is whether we 2007 TRIBUTE TO THE TROOPS sistance against the terrorists. shall play it well or play it ill.’’ These second-guessers proclaim to the Thus far, we have played it well but we are (By Jim Wham) world that the war is lost; their words bring now at the crossroads of the decision that I want to commend the 15th Street Church smiles to the evil faces of those marauders. will affect all mankind. The question is, will of God for this event at the Bandshell. This These quitters are like a quarterback shout- we stay and fight for freedom and for peace evening of prayer and song forms the perfect ing to the other team. ‘‘We’re not going to or will we forfeit the field to those vicious occasion to recognize the men and women pass, we’re runnin’ around the left end.’’ criminals who in no way respect the God- serving this country in the Armed Forces of We are running away from you—the terror- given miracle of life. the United States. Each one of them and ists—is the message of the quitter. Rudyard Kipling—the great British patriot their families are making a sacrifice unlike If they want to win a war they say is lost, and poet of the 19th and 20th Centuries put any other. they, the second guessers not the President, to verse the lesson of perseverance in long Every American when called to serve in must change their tune because quitters lasting battles. Here’s the way he wrote it: the Armed Forces of the United States per- never win. ‘‘How do we know, when the long fight rages, forms the duty assigned to him or her by the The Scripture proclaims ‘‘If the trumpet On the old, stale front that we cannot shake, Commander-in-Chief and not by Congress- gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare And it looks as though we were locked for men and Senators. himself to the battle.’’ There are far too ages. I thought of each life of these men and many uncertain trumpets being sounded in How do we know they are going to break? women and all others who served their coun- Washington today and in the national news There is no lull in the level firing, try. The course and destiny of their lives are media. These uncertain trumpets inspire Nothing has shifted except the sun. set by chance assignment of that duty. Some nothing but joy in the haunts of the terror- Yet we can feel they are tiring, tiring— come back unscathed, others marked by ists who love to hear those mournful tunes in Yet we can tell they are ripe to run. grievous wounds and others never come the USA. Something wavers, and, while we wonder, back. When these friends from Hell see the leader Their centre-trenches are emptying out, The month of May is the month we pay of the Senate on television proclaim the war And, before their useless flanks go under, honor to the men and women on Armed Serv- is lost, the terrorists around the world ap- Our guns have pounded retreat to rout.’’ ices Day a couple of weeks from now, and plaud and promote more suicide bombers to then a week later, Memorial Day—a day hasten the day of American surrender. In other words, we win by hanging on. when everyone in this land of liberty must And when they see and hear the Senate My friends, American forces are going to stop, look to the story of the soldiers, sailors leader condemn the Vice President, they ap- win this war against terrorism. The war is and marines who fell on battlefields—went plaud again and try to kill him in Pakistan. not lost and no one should listen to the quit- down in sinking ships—in crashing planes— Don’t these second guessing quitters know ters because they are the losers of the in the deserts—in the jungles—in the that the United States has a vital interest to present and the future. towns—all over this world during the entire contest the terrorist in the Middle East—in If we but stand fast with the troops and lifetime of this nation. that caldron of hatred and insanity which is our Commander-in-Chief, the fiends of Hell The unknown soldiers and the unsung he- the launching pad for terrorists against this will lose. And the sacrifice of these gallant roes—there are thousands and thousands of country and its allies? men and women we honor today will not them. These gallant men and women most Don’t be second-guessers give any thought have been in vain. They must not be let likely will never be known by the people for at all to the downside of an American sur- down by quitting and surrender. what they did. They served and they did not render by pulling out of that part of the f ask for glory. Their deeds of valor on battle- world? fields and oceans and in the air never had a Every concerned American who stops, THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY chance to be forgotten because they re- looks, and listens to the present day hap- ASSEMBLY mained unspoken and unknown. penings knows the disastrous downside of an The American people never forget these American pull-out from Iraq. known and unknown living and dead Ameri- It would proclaim to the world an Amer- HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS cans—this ever expanding LEGION OF ican confession that terrorism has won a vic- OF FLORIDA HONOR has never let their country down and tory over the United States. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES no one in this country should ever let them World power of the United States would Tuesday, July 31, 2007 down. evaporate. Jesus tells us ‘‘Blessed are the peace- No longer would the United States lead in Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Madam Speaker, makers for they shall be called the children the battle for peace and freedom which is so I hereby submit, for the RECORD, the text of of God.’’ The peacemakers—they are the men necessary to the salvation of our own way of my report to you on the activities of the U.S. and women in the American Armed Forces— life. Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary As- the peacemakers who in defending freedom Do the quitters ever envision their day at sembly, held in early July in Kyiv, Ukraine. do so to bring peace to the world—God’s the Baghdad airport—when a thousand trans- I had the honor to chair the U.S. Delegation, world and to the children of God. port planes land and take off with the Amer- The tyrants foment conflict and war. The ican army to the dismay of every decent per- which included Senator BEN CARDIN as the armed forces of the U.S. are always against son who knows that there goes the last best deputy head of delegation, as well as our Ma- the tyrant—never in support of the tyrant, chance for peace and freedom? jority Leader, Mr. STENY HOYER. Other partici- and these American men and women we Why can’t these quitters envision that into pants on the U.S. Delegation were Represent- honor today—honor them for opposing a tyr- the vacuum left behind, the criminal gangs atives CHRIS SMITH, MARCY KAPTUR, LOUISE anny of a new dark age, a tyranny of world- of the Taliban, al Qaeda, the death squads of MCINTOSH SLAUGHTER, MICHAEL MCNULTY, wide terrorism—a dark age spawned from the both Sunnis and Shiites will seize the oppor- ROBERT ADERHOLT, MIKE MCINTYRE, HILDA L. dens of terrorists throughout the world even tunity in a common cause against their own SOLIS, G.K. BUTTERFIELD, DORIS MATSUI and in this country and in our allies Britain and people and against America and her allies by Israel as well as in countless other nations. joining together these legions of evil against GWEN S. MOORE. These insane religious fanatics misuse the decent people of the Middle East. As the report details, the delegation was ac- their religion to cultivate and persuade Doesn’t it occur to the quitter that a coali- tive at the Annual Session of the OSCE Par- thousands of suicide bombers to destroy tion of Iran, Iraq and Syria under despotic liamentary Assembly, which is an inter-par- multi-thousands of innocent people who are leaders will bring pressure and threat of con- liamentary body consisting of 56 participating unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at quest against Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as States from North America, Europe, the Cau- the wrong time when the suicide bomber ex- Saddam Hussein attempted to do in the cuses and Central Asia, as well as numerous plodes himself in their midst.
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