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Pelosi: ‘Bush Is Out of Touch With What Is Actually Happening on the Ground in Iraq'

Date: Nov. 1, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs


Pelosi: ‘Bush Is Out of Touch With What Is Actually Happening on the Ground in Iraq'

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush's failed policy in Iraq:

"Last week, President Bush said that the U.S. was winning in Iraq. However, according to media reports, the U.S. Central Command judges the situation in Iraq to be near chaos, with ‘violence at all-time high, spreading geographically.' That President Bush sees increasing violence as ‘winning' is further evidence of how far out of touch he is with what is actually happening on the ground in Iraq.

"One-third of the U.S. casualties in October were suffered by troops on their second or third tours, and with security decisions in Baghdad apparently increasingly dictated by the militias, it is long past time for a new direction in Iraq."

http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=1912

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