On the recordJuly 12, 2007
Mr. Speaker just a little over a week ago I traveled to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to see yet another 100 men and women of the Virgin Islands National Guard off to Iraq. Among those who left on Sunday and are now deployed, there are several who are doing their second tour as well as a father and his daughter. It was not easy, but I put my best face forward while there because I knew that it was much harder--extremely difficult--for their families. Mr. Speaker, the only reason I could smile and be upbeat in my message to them is because I knew Democrats would be here today, passing this measure to set a time limit for our troops to be deployed in Iraq and to begin their return home. And so Mr. Speaker, I rise to support this resolution as the first step to ending U.S. involvement in the civil war that Iraq has become.
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