Don Young: “it is rare that I would speak on this issue. I do support this resolution, but more than that, I would like to remind…”

“it is rare that I would speak on this issue. I do support this resolution, but more than that, I would like to remind people why we are here. There are not many in this room, but there are a few that remember 1939. I lived in that era and I listened to people speak about ``Hitler's really not a bad guy. He's just minding his own business. He's taking care of his people. We shouldn't be involved.'' Fifty-two million people later, we won World War II. We should have knocked him in the head when we had a chance instead of listening to Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Britain. We should have aggressively pursued him as we did Saddam Hussein. In my heart of hearts, I believe that we would be, in fact, in a nuclear war if we had allowed him to continue his trek. But this President stood up and he was a leader and he stopped it. Now we have done that deed and we are in a place where we should continue and finish this job. Someone said this is not a cut and run, that we have been there 3\1/ 2\ years. But I ask you to ask your military people, ask those people out at Walter Reed, as I have. Most of them are proud of their service and their duty. And I salute each one of them, him or her, and the commanding officers who fulfilled their duty. If you believe in democracy and believe in peace, we must continue this trip that we started. We must finish it and make sure that democracy reigns in the Middle East.…”