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June 16, 2006
Damn Fool
Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on this resolution as the chairperson of the 72-member Out of Iraq Caucus of the House of Representatives. Tomorrow will mark the 1-year anniversary of the Out of Iraq Caucus.
My colleagues and I joined together to form the Out of Iraq Caucus to pressure the Bush administration into telling the truth about what is going on in Iraq, to admit their mistakes, and to admit their misjudgments, and to force them to devise a plan to bring our troops home.
The Bush administration cannot deny that they misled the world about the reasons we invaded Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was no connection between the unfortunate destruction of 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. We have not been welcomed with open arms in Iraq. We have no substantial support for this war by other countries. Yet, Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, Ms. Rice, Mr. Wolfowitz, and Mr. Karl Rove continue to squander the American taxpayers' dollars on a war that cannot be won with a military solution.
Here we are 3 years later, 2,500 American soldiers dead, 18,498 U.S. soldiers seriously injured, and Congress has appropriated over $320 billion for this war, and the costs will only continue to rise. Even Condoleezza Rice admitted there have been thousands of missteps. The American people are increasingly aware of this mismanaged, corrupt, and bungled war.
The company that Vice President Cheney served as CEO of, Halliburton, has been awarded no-bid contracts for billions of dollars, and they have had over $400 million in unsupported costs and another $1 billion in questioned costs. In simple words, they are cheating the American people. Yet they are not being held accountable for their criminal actions, and the administration has facilitated these illegal actions.
...However, Congress has done virtually no oversight of this war, no hearing, no acknowledging the generals that are trying to tell us about Mr. Rumsfeld's mismanagement of this war. We have not done the oversight, and today, we find that we have this debate. It is not sufficient, nor has it been properly characterized. This resolution we are debating is a sham.
As a matter of fact, it is a trap. It is an attempt to force Democrats to sign on to a resolution that will do nothing to bring our troops home. Oh, they want to make us sound as if we are unpatriotic. They want to make us sound as if we do not support our troops. We love our troops. We are as patriotic as anybody, and so I would implore my colleagues not to get caught into this trap.
A TRAP? She's a damned communist fool.Posted by Aaron at June 16, 2006 03:15 PM
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I've never even heard of the Out of Iraq Caucus. I guess that goes to show how successful they are in their cause...
Oh, and the last time I checked, the Pentagon is in charge of running wars, not Congress. If Congress were in charge, we would definitely have the quagmire the Dems are praying for.
Posted by: Pam at June 16, 2006 08:25 PM
Stupid democrat race bating bi@ch! Just shut the hell up , party of the Perpetual Fraud. The Commycrats should be censured and removed entirely and replaced by Americans. Then they should all be marched straight to the electric chair and fried.
There is nothing American about these TRAITOROUS CRY BABIES.
Posted by: RobinLACa at June 16, 2006 11:47 PM
This woman represents one of the most dangerous districts in the Country. How many died violent deaths last year? More people died (violently)there last year then our military deaths in Iraq.
What a piece of work!
Posted by: Paul Vibe at June 19, 2006 08:57 AM