Mike Pence: “we will confront many issues in the 108th Congress. They will have to do with the economy; our own budget; a debate over…”

“we will confront many issues in the 108th Congress. They will have to do with the economy; our own budget; a debate over cloning, which will come to the House floor this week and to this very Chamber moments from now; reforming Medicare; but nothing can be compared to the issues of war and peace. In the midst of an incessant barrage of media alerts, Mr. Speaker, and new resolutions being debated before the United Nations, as a member of the Committee on International Relations I rise tonight to stand with the President of the United States and the strong and unwavering leadership in confronting tyranny which he and the Prime Minister of England and the leaders of some 43 other nations have consistently and courageously provided to the world. Mr. Speaker, I am not a combat veteran; it was not part of my generation. But my father was, having seen conflict and bloodshed in the Korean War. I do not welcome war. I do not hope for it. As near as I can tell, from my late father and veterans with whom I have close enough relationships to hear the truth, war is a wicked and a violent enterprise that can consume our children in a conflagration, unthinkable in ordinary life. But nevertheless it has come from time to time upon the free nations of the world, and it seems most especially on the United States of America, to be willing to employ the arsenal of democracy to confront force with force as a last resort. We may well be come upon such a time again, Mr. Speaker.…”