Administration Unhinged From Reality

ADMINISTRATION UNHINGED FROM REALITY -- (House of Representatives - September 29, 2004)

(Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, today we see an administration in denial, a denial of problems here at home and abroad.
Today's Washington Post says an increasing number of career professionals within our own national security agencies believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse than is being expressed in public by top administration officials. It says, "The rebellion is deeper and more widespread than is being publicly acknowledged."

These are not the words of "pessimists and naysayers," as the President's spokesperson so glibly put it. These are not, as President Bush said last week, "guesses." These are the findings of those fighting the Iraqi insurgency and studying at CIA, the State Department, and within the Army officer corps.

Yet the administration insists that, "Freedom is on the march in Iraq." This comes on the heels of a New York Times piece that found 120,000 hours of terrorism-related recordings that have not even been translated by the FBI, this after this administration and the majority have repeatedly refused to appropriate the funds to hire the necessary translators.

We are seeing an administration unhinged from reality, with incompetence at the highest levels, incapable of prosecuting this war successfully. Their mistakes have put the lives of our valiant soldiers already serving in harm's way at even greater risk.