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On the recordDecember 7, 2001
This is not a hurricane. This is not a flood. This is not a natural disaster. This is an unnatural disaster called a war. The reason my guardsmen in Delaware were called up and all of our guardsmen are called up now is for a war. This is a war. Here we are on December 7, 60 years after Pearl Harbor, and where are we? We are once again faced with what we were faced with then. This is the first time since then American soil has been struck. What is the most likely place where the next terrible tragedy will occur if our enemies have their way? In America.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the call-up of National Guard troops in the context of war on December 7, 2001.

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