Never Surrender

NEVER SURRENDER

Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, last week we debated the very important issue of how we are going to confront the global war on terror: Are we going to confront this challenge, or are we going to retreat and defeat? Republicans are dedicated to confronting this challenge and will continue to offer the American strong national security policies that will protect this Nation against another attack on their own soil. We will continue to trumpet successes such as the elimination of al Zarqawi and the Iraqi Government naming new interior defense and security ministers.

Democrats, though, are too eager to grasp upon the challenges we face as their rationale to defeat. Even the death of the terrorist al Zarqawi only brought cries of retreat and claims that it was only ``a stunt.'' And just last week, 149 Democrats voted against a resolution declaring that the United States will prevail in the war on terror.

Mr. Speaker, President Kennedy once said, ``The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it, and one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.''

When it comes to the global war on terror, we must never choose the path of surrender.

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