[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18958]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TIME FOR U.S. TO LEAVE IRAQ

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, it is time for the United States to get 
out of Iraq. But this administration, whose entry strategy was based on 
falsehood, with no exit strategy, has trapped our troops in Iraq and 
exposed them to greater harm. The total number of American casualties 
is now 232.
  Here is what needs to be done diplomatically: the United Nations must 
be brought in. Negotiations for an exit must begin now. An exit 
agreement with the United Nations must involve the U.S. letting go of 
the contracting process; Halliburton, Brown and Root, et cetera. The 
U.S. must also take over the management, accounting, and distribution 
to the Iraqi people of the oil. Additionally, a transition from U.N. 
control to a self-determining governing structure by and for the Iraqi 
people must be planned. Finally, the administration, which unwisely 
ordered the bombing, must fund the reconstruction.
  It was wrong to go into Iraq. It is wrong to stay in Iraq. U.S. out. 
U.N. in. Let us support our troops by bringing them home.

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