House Proceeding on Feb 14th, 2007 :: 11:23:20 to 11:28:21
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Donald M. Payne: young freshman member of this body, the house of representatives, and was facing a difficult point in his career. lincoln criticized the reasons president polk gave for getting us into the mexican

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Stephanie Herseth: american war. a war that began before lincoln came to office, a position that i can identify with today as i stand here. then congressman lincoln voted for a resolution that stated, the mexican

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Speech By: Stephanie Herseth

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Stephanie Herseth: american war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally initiated by president polk. lincoln thought the war was nothing more than a political move to grab land from the mexican people. my friends

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Stephanie Herseth: it is legitimate and in fact our duty to question the reasons why our country goes to war. and abraham lincoln showed us that. however he also showed us something else. abraham lincoln, an

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Stephanie Herseth: incredibly -- made an incredibly important distinction we can learn from today. a lincoln bioggraer if writes that after being criticized for that vote, lincoln sought to clarify his position

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Stephanie Herseth: arguing that although had he challenged the instigation of the war, he had never voted against supplies for the soldiers. this is important point to make again. lincoln sought to claire if i

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Stephanie Herseth: his decision. although he challenged the instigation of the war, he never voted against supplies for the soldiers of the lincoln knew the damage of condemning a war while claiming to support the

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Stephanie Herseth: troops. yet that's what this resolution before us does today. during the american revolution the men and women who had become this country's first citizens were declared by the king of england

11:24:54 to 11:25:07( Edit History Discussion )

Stephanie Herseth: to be in rebellion. the king sent soldiers across the atlantic to quell the uprising. the average citizen who stands up and fights for his neighbor's freedom, it is the same today. in response

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Stephanie Herseth: to the king of england's attack, again it was the average citizen who raised his hand, volunteered, stood up, and fought for our freedom. a bookstore owner, a manager of an iron foundry, and

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Stephanie Herseth: a land surveyor all stood and fought for our freedom. those men were henry knox, nathaniel green, and george washington. during america's war for independence it was not clear if we would prevail

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Stephanie Herseth: then. we lost battle after battle. troops deserted the battlefields. general washington and his deputies persevered continue -- continuing to engage the enemy until the tide turned because so much was

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Stephanie Herseth: at stake. we are the united states of america today. and we are free. because general washington refused to quit. we are the united states of america today and we are free because abraham lincoln

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Stephanie Herseth: refused to quit. and we are the united states of america today and we are free because roosevelt and truman refused to quit. and we are the united states of america today and we are free

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Stephanie Herseth: because of the sacrifice of the men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line in iraq, afghanistan, and all around the world preserving our freedom. today the united states is engaged

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Stephanie Herseth: in another war. and just as before we face an enemy that wants to destroy our way of life. just as before we face an enemy that thinks it's winning. just as before our country is divided. just

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Stephanie Herseth: as before we are making mistakes. just as before we face a moment of truth. what do we do next? and just as before the consequences of losing are devastating. the enemy is clear about what their

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Stephanie Herseth: intentions are. by what they say and what they do. al qaeda and the global movement that it has spawned have made it clear they want nuclear and biological weapons. it is clear they want to

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Stephanie Herseth: kill us. americans. osama bin laden has called acquiring nuclear weapons a religious duty. the fact is we are engaged in a global war with people intent on killing americans. regardless of how we

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Stephanie Herseth: got into iraq, iraq is now a central front of that war. yet while we debate this nonbinding resolution what is really at stake is winning or losing. like lincoln i was not in this office

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Stephanie Herseth: as the war began. i understand the arguments. i understand the questions. i have been asking questions, too. as an elected official in this body for the past two years, as a concerned citizen,

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Peter T. King: and before that as a veteran. i understand that there are many who think we should never have entered iraq. we now know there was faulty intelligence that led to that decision. but the war

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Speech By: Peter T. King