Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Steve King (IA-05) today addressed the U.S. House, calling upon his colleagues to put their support behind our troops and their mission in battle and vote against the Democrat-introduced resolution meant to take the first steps toward cutting funding for the troops. 

Following are excerpts of his speech:

“We’re in a war. von Clausewitz wrote that the object of war is to destroy the enemy’s will and ability to conduct war. That means take away their munitions, take care of their armies, destroy them if you can. But end the end, whatever you might do, does it break their will? You have to destroy their will. There’s nothing going on [Democrat] side of the aisle that is diminishing the will of our enemy. I will tell you that they will interpret it as encouraging the will of the enemy.”

“Here on the floor of this Congress, when we had Nouri al Malki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, speaking from the very podium behind me, July 26, 2006, a short half-year ago, he said, ‘the fate of our country and yours is tied, should Democracy be allowed to fail in Iraq, and terror permitted to triumph, then the War on Terror will never be won elsewhere.’”

Last week King introduced his own resolution as an alternative to measures that would prematurely withdraw American troops from Iraq or take steps toward cutting funding from the troops. The resolution pledges Congressional support for the troops, victory in Iraq and the global War on Terror.