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Murphy Statement on Voting to Reject Open-Ended Commitment in Iraq

Statement

Date: May 24, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs


Murphy Statement on Voting to Reject Open-Ended Commitment in Iraq

Congressman Chris Murphy (CT-5) released the following statement on his intention to vote against a bill to fund the war in Iraq that has no timeline for the redeployment of our troops.

"This bill is two inches away from giving a blank check to the President for this war, and I will not support it because it continues our commitment with no plan to redeploy our troops out of the civil war in Iraq.

"People in Connecticut and across the country overwhelmingly support redeploying our troops out of Iraq, yet this message falls on deaf ears in the Bush Administration. This bill may pass today, and the President may sign it, but I cannot support it. I was sent here to bring this war to a close, and this bill doesn't do that."


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