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.
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