[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9472]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       AN ARROGANT ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I see in the morning 
papers that the Republicans have a problem with Senator Kerry's 
characterization of this administration as arrogant in its foreign 
policy.
  Arrogance. What do you call it when they ignore their economic 
advisers that tell them the real cost of the war will be $200 billion, 
and not a couple of billion paid for by the Iraqis?
  Arrogance. What do you call it when they ignore their military 
advisers on the number of troops that will be necessary, not only to 
win the war, but to keep the peace and protect our troops from harm?
  Arrogance. What do you call it when they send their troops into 
combat without the proper equipment to protects those troops, such as 
bulletproof vests and armored Humvees, and still have not done it 
today?
  Arrogance. What do you call it when they ignore the advice of the 
State Department that we have to have international support for the war 
and international participation in the keeping of the peace? We had 
neither.
  Arrogance. What do you call it when they rush to war, and the 
Pentagon says that rush to war prevented us from being able to protect 
our soldiers in a proper way, and now one out of four casualties is 
because we were improperly prepared to keep the peace?
  Arrogance. That is what you call it.

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