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Time To Leave Iraq

Floor Speech

Date: July 10, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Military Personnel Foreign Affairs


TIME TO LEAVE IRAQ -- (House of Representatives - July 10, 2007)

Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, the time has come for us to leave Iraq. The President intends to continue his war until he leaves office and let the next President clean up his mess. White House advisers debate how to buy more time.

Over 3,600 U.S. troops have been killed. Hundreds, perhaps thousands more, will be killed while we wait for this President to end this war. Thirty thousand U.S. troops wounded. Will that number double while we wait for this President to end his war? Thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children dead, $10 billion each month squandered. Are we ready to spend $200 billion more?

On Sunday, the New York Times laid out why, how, and when the U.S. should end this war. It pulled no punches about how ugly the aftermath might be. It was a hard and honest statement of where we stand right now and where we need to go.

Mr. Speaker, Congress must act. It is time to end this war.


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