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Pelosi Statement on Boehner's Comments Praising Secretary Rumsfeld

Date: Oct. 29, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense


Pelosi Statement on Boehner's Comments Praising Secretary Rumsfeld

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on Majority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) comment on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that Secretary Rumsfeld is the "best thing to happen to the Pentagon in 25 years."

"Mr. Boehner's statement that Secretary Rumsfeld is the ‘best thing to happen to the Pentagon in 25 years' shows just how out of touch he is.

"Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush sent our troops to Iraq without the equipment they needed and without a plan to complete our mission. Our troops deserved far better.

"Americans concerned by the obvious failures of President Bush's Iraq policy, Secretary Rumsfeld's obvious incompetence, the rapidly increasing numbers of U.S. causalities, and the escalating levels of sectarian violence want a new direction in Iraq."

http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=1902

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