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Durbin Reacts to President Bush's Speech on Iraq

Date: Oct. 6, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs


DURBIN REACTS TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S SPEECH ON IRAQ

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today issued the following statement after President Bush delivered an address on Iraq:

"The White House promised new details in this speech. Instead, the President delivered old generalities. President Bush failed to answer the questions Americans and Democrats are asking: How do we know if progress is being made? How do we measure success? When will there be enough Iraqi battalions ready to fight so U.S. troops can begin coming home? What is the President's plan to ensure that our troop commitment in Iraq does not compromise our safety here at home?"

"The president has offered America a false choice, between resolve and retreat. The real choice is between a strategy of accountability and more vague generalities. We must move beyond policies of fear to a forceful commitment to protect the United States and its values."

Roughly 7,000 troops from Illinois are serving in Iraq. Seventy-seven Illinoisans have been killed in Iraq.

http://durbin.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=247032&&

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