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Randy Neugebauer: I hope to spend the next hour with some of my colleagues talking about the things that are going well. I thought it was…

On the recordMay 23, 2007
I hope to spend the next hour with some of my colleagues talking about the things that are going well. I thought it was interesting as the other side was talking about how they support our troops, and are thankful for the wonderful job they are doing, yet they have made them wait 107 days for much-needed resources to do the job that we have asked them to do. We are going to talk about that later on this evening, of all of the things that our young men and women have had to wait for as we have been playing a political game, or the other side, I would say, has been playing the political game, and our young men and women have been doing and continue to do the professional job that they have been doing for so many times. I have been to Iraq three times myself, and tonight I am joined by some of my colleagues that have also been over there. We are going to talk about this war, because it's a real war. I think some people try to minimize what is going on in this global war on terrorism, but, in fact, it is a real war. We will talk about where this war is being fought. It's not just being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are also going to talk about the fact that Iraq is a central front for the war on terrorism. Finally, we are also going to talk a lot about the progress that's being made over there.
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Randy Neugebauer
Texas

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Discussing the situation in Iraq and the support for U.S. troops during a floor speech.

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