and general kennard wrote me a letter in recent years saying we had a lot of good battalions. it was the first cav division. i'm glad it was your battalion that ran into that hornet's nest which was a pretty good compliment from the commander general. >> yes, sir. >> but i've gone back to the battlefield twice, once with joe and i wanted to spend the night on the battlefield. the helicopter that took us in there, russian helicopter flown by two vietnamese pilots. they took the first lift out. but then the second lift, we were stranded by monsoon rain which pounded us for two hours, so we spent the night there. i was able to walk over to my command post and i visualized in memory that some of the dead that we were unable to get out that night. i could see them in my mind, boots sticking out at crazy angles from the ponchos. [ inaudible ]. i vis stead charlie company. specifically i found myself in the fox hole, what was left of it. i remember again him and others as i walked the line saying, not on me, colonel. they won't get through us. carry on, sir. i knew in october of '93

guy, democrats and indeed more democratic than the regimes that often repress them on the -- the kennard that they are anti-democracy and come in and end democracy, at hosni mubarak and end their democratic regimes. so, you know, they take the examples of the rightly guided [ speaking in foreign language ] the first person to replace the prophet muhammad was elected by the consensus of the community. that, to them, is prima facie evidence that islam is for elections. they believe in shorea, in [ speaking in foreign language ] and the concept that there's no compulsion in religion. that islam does not believe that you can impose your religion on others. and these are all, you know, well-founded principles for them, the islamic tradition textually and as well. and finally, they believe that the principle of citizenship should govern relations between majorities and minorities in muslim states. so this whole discussion about coptic christians being [ speaking in foreign language ] or to me they reject that nation. no. in a modern nation state we accept citizenship rights. there are no first

marred by the topic of conversation today and sorry that the majority has used this to promote the kennard and not my word, but bruce bartlett's word, which i think that means baloney that the main problem with the economy today is regulation. bruce bartlett conservative economist and adviser to ronald reagan said that in my opinion regulatory uncertainty is a by the business community year in and year out. we have an obligation to make sure that our regulation is good, that it keeps us safe, that it keeps our air clean, that it keeps our banks alive without quashing entrepreneurship and economic vitality. we should do that every day. but what we've heard, the ideology, this notion that regulation is the problem in our economy, is just what bruce bartlett called it, a canard. and i'm sorry that this bill has been spoiled by the antics of the republican majority. i'm thrilled that this bill includes hr 1965. at the end of the day, i mentioned reagan. reagan said, you get a lot done in washington, d.c. if you didn't care who gets the credit. there may be only one way to spell potato. but the

. >> justice kennard if we can start with a common ground there's a need for repair because there's a collision doctrine. this is on the question of remedy and we do take the position you need to describe the remedy would be certainly happy if we got something here and a recognition the doctrine insists this is coercive and we get the remedy that is it just in the alternative. with the solicitor general says when you support the policy you think the policies spurred the blessings of liberty. it is the liberty that forces somebody to purchase an insurance policy and it's a strange conception of the federal and shom that says we can simply give the states an offer they can't refuse on the notion that congress can do more because it's voluntary weekend to force the states to do what ever we tell them to. that is a threat to our federal discipline. stomachs before mr. clement and general, and in particular of course mr. long and mr. farr. the case is submitted. >> paul climate is the lawyer challenging the president's health care law. after today's arguments, he spoke to the reporters of