On the recordSeptember 7, 2004
We are within a score of having a thousand deaths in Iraq. I say to my friend from California, I appreciate it so much because I have been on the Senate floor where I have lamented the fact and have referred to major newspapers around the country where the deaths of our servicemen have been relegated to page 14 and page 7 of newspapers around the country. Each one of these 254 deaths involves the sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, cousins, and neighbors, people who will long remember those who died in service to their country. We cannot take for granted what is happening in Iraq.
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