I voted to support the war in Iraq and want to do nothing that appears to undermine our president, ... But I feel that I cannot sit idly by and just watch the United States be bogged down in a guerrilla war in Iraq with more and more American casualties every day. -Eliot Engel

 

I voted to support the war in Iraq and want to do nothing that appears to undermine our president, ... But I feel that I cannot sit idly by and just watch the United States be bogged down in a guerrilla war in Iraq with more and more American casualties every day.


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The president filled (FEMA) with political hacks — I can think of no other word — and people who were not qualified or up to the job of doing this.

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That's a change in the attitude from a week, two weeks, a month ago, ... We've made progress. I think the Army is giving these ladies the proper respect.

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This has the effect of pulling the rug out from under the administration in trying to forge an agreement on Kosovo.

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They don't like the Ken Starr witch hunt. ... They think (Clinton) has been doing a good job, ... The Clinton-haters will never be satisfied.

Eliot Engel

Syria's record on terrorism in my estimation is worse than even Iraq's.

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