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Urging Support For A Clean Iraq Emergency Supplemental Bill

Floor Speech

Date: May 1, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs


URGING SUPPORT FOR A CLEAN IRAQ EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL BILL -- (House of Representatives - May 01, 2007)

Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Madam Speaker, it is my hope that we can come together and agree on an Iraq emergency supplemental that provides the resources our troops need without tying the hands of our generals and forcing them to adhere to unrealistic timetables.

Last week in a Chicago Tribune editorial, they stated: ``President Bush will veto the war spending bill approved by Congress this week because it contains a timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq. He is right to do so.''

With a new commanding general on the ground and the surge strategy still ramping up, our troops deserve this chance to make progress, and we are starting to see signs in Iraq that things are modestly improving.

I urge my colleagues to support a clean supplemental and to encourage patience as we heard 4 years ago before we even went to Iraq that this would be a long time coming, that our ultimate goal in accomplishing victory in Iraq would take some time. We need to listen to those comments, and, again, I urge patience.


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