Bob Beauprez: “with some reluctance I rise in opposition to my friend the gentleman from Indiana's (Mr. Pence) amendment. The gentleman…”

“with some reluctance I rise in opposition to my friend the gentleman from Indiana's (Mr. Pence) amendment. The gentleman knows that. We spoke about this. I considered it very heavily, but here is where I come down in opposition. I think we have to go back to thinking about why we got here, how we got here. We got here for the sake of freedom, for the sake of the freedom of our own people. I go back to the morning of September 11 in my own memory, and we have to remind ourselves that we were attacked. This was an act of war, and we went to war for the sake of freedom. Those that attacked us are in multiple places around the world, certainly not the nation of Iraq, but the people in power in Iraq were part of those, as the President put it, supporting terror, you are either with us or you are against us. I used to be a banker. I was never able to walk up and down the streets of my communities and force people to sign loan documents: This is the amount that I force you to borrow, and these are the terms and conditions that I am going to force you to repay me on. It does not work that way. What we are about in this is about freedom, and in this very building that we have the privilege of serving in, there were people once that served here for the sake of freedom who said they would pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for the sake of freedom. We have the same obligation.…”