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Pelosi Statement on Rumsfeld Remarks

Date: Aug. 30, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Defense


Pelosi Statement on Rumsfeld Remarks

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to Secretary Rumsfeld's remarks he made yesterday to the American Legion convention in Salt Lake City:

"Secretary Rumsfeld's efforts to smear critics of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy are a pathetic attempt to shift the public's attention from his repeated failure to manage the conduct of the war competently. If Mr. Rumsfeld is so concerned with comparisons to World War II, he should explain why our troops have now been fighting in Iraq longer than it took our forces to defeat the Nazis in Europe.

"The policies that led to the horrors at Abu Ghraib were developed on Mr. Rumsfeld's watch. For him to now lecture on moral clarity is a fresh embarrassment to the nation. His comments offer additional evidence that the end of his tenure as Secretary of Defense can not come soon enough."

http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=1758

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