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One Year Anniversary of Sovereignty in Iraq
A year ago today sovereignty was returned to the country of Iraq. The coalition provisional authority left.
But, Madam Speaker, over the past several weeks, the negative press over our progress and polls here at home seem to have undermined a lot of the good activity that has occurred there.
The goal of the attackers, the goal of the insurgents is to discourage Iraqis from participating in their own
government.
A second goal of course is to weaken our resolve here at home. And ironically they seem to be failing in the first choice, but succeeding in the second.
Madam speaker, every time I have traveled to Iraq I have been struck by the disparity between what I see on my television here at home in the United States and what's actually happening on the ground in Iraq.
Our soldiers should not have to look over their shoulders to see if we support them in their mission.
I urge my colleagues in this house on both sides to carefully consider their rhetoric when they use words like quagmire and civil war in respect to the conflict in Iraq.
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