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Joe Cunningham: “Mr. Speaker, if you take every emotion you have ever felt, of love, anger, hate, it swells up in a person. If you can…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2002
Mr. Speaker, if you take every emotion you have ever felt, of love, anger, hate, it swells up in a person. If you can imagine what it is like to see a friend or friends go down in flames, and even more know how that is going to affect the families, this vote rips my heart out. But, yet, being on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Armed Services, I would tell my friends that disagree, I believe with every fiber in my heart that it is necessary to give the President the flexibility to stop not only terrorists but Saddam Hussein, because I believe that threat will reach the shores of the United States.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina
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Discussing the emotional impact of a vote related to national security and military action.

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