House Proceeding on Dec 5th, 2007 :: 0:46:36 to 0:51:49
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Speech By: Ike Skelton

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Ike Skelton: were tired of the violence. so just like any of our neighbors here would be tired of violence under those circumstances. the iraqi grew tired of it as well. but the second reason i believe

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Jim Saxton: we began to make progress as we see today is very simply the iraqi people became convinced in spite of many days of rhetoric on this floor became convinced that we weren't going to leave

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Speech By: Jim Saxton

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Jim Saxton: them, that we were going to stay and finish the job. and so a commitment of an additional $192 billion for the purposes of -- can the gentleman yielding a an diagse two minutes? mr. hunter:

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Jim Saxton: yield an additional two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. saxton: so the commitment that would be expressed by the passage of this language i think is extremely

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Jim Saxton: important. but i also think it's important to recognize that the provision notes that a failed state in iraq could lead to a broader regional conflict. in was aot of talk here this morning on this

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Jim Saxton: floor and yesterday in the news media about the state of iran and why was it that in 2003 we now believe that they discontinued their effort to create nuclear weapons. could it have been --

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Jim Saxton: could it have been something that happened in their neighborhood? could it have been the determination that our soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines showed next door in iraq? and could it

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Jim Saxton: be that the iranian leadership recognized that there were actions that they needed to take in their best interest, which perhaps included the discontinuation of their -- of their effort to

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Jim Saxton: create nuclear weapons? so senate provision 1536 concludes by stating that the congress should commit itself to a strategy that will not leave a failed state in iraq, that will continue the

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Jim Saxton: progress that we've seen in recent months and should not pass legislation that will undermine our military's ability to prevent a failed state in iraq. madam chairlady, i yield back the balance

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Jim Saxton: of my time. y the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: madam speaker, before i yield tthe gentleman from mississippi,

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Jim Saxton: let me point out the fact that both in the house version of the defense authorization bill as well as the senate version of the bill, there is positive reference to the threat of a failed state

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Jim Saxton: in iraq that is fully recognized in both pieces of legislation. and i appreciate the gentleman's comments there on it and hopefully correct in parallel language could be adopted in that regard.

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Jim Saxton: i now, madam speaker, yield five minutes to my friend, my colleague, the gentleman from mississippi, chairman of the committee on sea power, mr. taylor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

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Jim Saxton: from mississippi is recognized for five minutes. mr. taylor: madam speaker, one of the things you need to do in a democracy is to say that's a good idea. i would remind the gentleman that it

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Jim Saxton: was the bush administration that classified the number of jammers in iraq under a failed policy by donald rumsfeld that basically didn't want to know the moms and dads in america know how few

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Jim Saxton: we had. and it was this congress that insisted that we had a jammer on every vehicle in iraq to keep the i.e.d.'s from being remotely detonated. so, of course, i don't want those funds cut because

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Jim Saxton: i, along with others, helped to put those funds in the bill. we didn't need minor resistent vehicles over there. the bush administration only asked for 4,000. we were going to build over 15,000 because

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Jim Saxton: this congress knows the importance of them. and there are kids in walter reed today who would still have their limbs if we had built them sooner. there are kids in mississippi ave-yards who

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Jim Saxton: would still be alive if we -- grave yards who would still be alive if we built them sooner. so, madam speaker, i fully sport the gentleman's efforts. we've got a lot of very good things in

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Jim Saxton: this bill. and it deserves to funded, and the troops in iraq need to know that we are going to fund the jammers they need jato save their lives, both over there and here because one of the

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Jim Saxton: problems with having too few jammers is that our troops in the united states that are training to go to iraq still aren't seeing a jammer until they get to theater. and this is a device that's

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Jim Saxton: going to save their lives. this is a device that's going to save their limbs. and they need to be training with those things here in america so that the first time they don't see this device

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Jim Saxton: it's going to save their life is when they're traveling from kuwait into iraq. and that's the situation that still exists today that we're trying to fix. the bush administration asked for too

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Ike Skelton: few of these. congress in an earmark said, no, we're going to build it because they are going to save lives. the bush administration asked for too few ambush protected vehicles. congress said we're