House Proceeding 09-24-09 on Sep 24th, 2009 :: 0:09:35 to 0:15:00
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Marcy Kaptur: i close three times, god please,

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Speech By: Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur: god please, anniversary, our congress and our president would have passed a commemoration supporting poland's struggle for liberty and its recent democratic advances. you would think that our nation, a nation that owes so much to poland for inspiring our own struggle for freedom at our

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Marcy Kaptur: nation's founding, and to its great general, chief engineer of our continental army, and the man who saved the life of general george wa that we would have risen to phrase the 10th anniversary of poland's admission into nato and

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Marcy Kaptur: our current military engagements in the war on terror. this year poland will mark one decade as a signature of nato, n intrinsic part of united states strategic foreign policy. september 17 should have been a reverent commemoration of of an extraordinary effort that cost

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Marcy Kaptur: so many lives, but seated and bequeathed a power sense of freedom and democracy inside the nation of poe lapd that ultimately yielded solidarity and strikes that began in 1956 until the final solidarity strictry in 1989 and the collapse of the berlin wall.

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Marcy Kaptur: . september 17 should be a day that commends the valiant peoplof poland for their his foric struggle against fascism and communism and commemorates the sacrifices made by the polish people, includinghose who have sense become american citizens. but on that day, our presidt should have called for strength

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Marcy Kaptur: and partnership in the nato organization, the north atlantic treaty organization, our euroan alliances and continued friendship with our polish allies. we should have honored the hi toric ties our two great nations have fashioned over two centues. instead on september 17, on the

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Marcy Kaptur: very an verse arery date of the heinous communist invasion of poland, our government and the obama administration chose to withdraw support of the antiballistic ssile shield in poland and the czech republics -- czech republics. whatever one's views of the merits or demerits of the defensive system, the choice of

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Marcy Kaptur: that date to announce this historic withdrawal is truly an insult to the nation of poland and to the people of poland. our nation not only owes poland an apology we owe her affirmative support. the united states has had diplomatic relations with this region since they were first

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Marcy Kaptur: established in april, 1919, after being wiped off the maps of europe for over a century, with the then newly form poldish republic. while our two nations have enjoyed consistently warm, bilateral relations since 1989. the polish government has been a strong supporter of continued american military and economic

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Marcy Kaptur: presence in europe and our important, shared love of freedom of democracy and they have supported our global war on terror, operationnduring freedom in afghanistan, and our coalition efforts in iraq. why did the administration do this? poland cooperates closely with

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Marcy Kaptur: american diplomacy on such issues at demok rayityization, regional cooperation in central and eastern europe and u.n. reform. now is definitely the moment for this congress and the administration to restore a with poland in order to

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Marcy Kaptur: continue an abiding friendship that should not be smeared by this really tactless decision to announce this consequential defense decision on september 17 that hearkens back to some