Joe Pitts: “there are people in Washington who treat politics like a sport, and sometimes it gets rough. That should be no surprise.…”

“there are people in Washington who treat politics like a sport, and sometimes it gets rough. That should be no surprise. But some things should be off limits. Mr. Speaker, for 8 months our country has been at war. It is a war that began when 19 evil men turned jumbo jets into missiles and killed 3,000 innocent people because they were Americans. Our President has led the world in a quest for justice. American soldiers are fighting and dying to keep the world safe, and President Bush has the awesome and heavy responsibility of commanding them. But there is an election around the bend and some of our friends on the other side of the aisle have decided it is time to start attacking the President. They are attacking him for not making predictions he could not reasonably have made. They are attacking him for not connecting the dots between thousands of intelligence briefings that none of them could have connected either. Mr. Speaker, this is wrong. When our fighting men and women are risking everything to keep us safe, the least we can do is to put partisanship aside.”