Congressional Digest

International Debates Archives March 2007 No. 3 Vol. 5
Honorable Jack Kingston

Debating Iraq War Policy

Surge vs. Redeployment

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Honorable Jack Kingston

United States Representative, Georgia, Republican

Representative Kingston was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 1992. He serves on the Appropriations Committee. The following is excerpted from the February 14­–16, 2007, House floor debate on H. Con. Res. 63, the Iraq War Resolution. I want to say this, that ifthe troops in Baghdadwatched what Congress was doing today, they would be outraged. Fortunately forus in the free world, they do not sit around and watch C-SPAN and what sillypoliticians do. They live in a real world where there are real bullets.             This resolution, on the other hand, is not real. It…

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