Speeches

WHY ARE PEOPLE CONTINUING TO DIE IN IRAQ?
House of Representatives - July 10, 2003

Mr. Speaker, on May 1, the Commander in Chief of the United States military forces declared the war was over. Since that day, 65 people have died. The last three who died were Craig Boling, Elkhart, Indiana; Barry Sanford, Aurora, Colorado; Robert McKinley, Kokomo, Indiana.

Huge questions have arisen about whether we were misled about this war. In Great Britain, the Prime Minister, Mr. Blair, faced 2 hours of questioning by the British Parliament. It is time for this Congress to have a bipartisan select committee to look into the reasons why we are in Iraq and why people continue to die there.

We must not let them be forgotten, as they were in my era of the Vietnam War. There is a wall with 50,000-some people on it. Their names were never read on the floor. They ought to be read here and not forgotten.