[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13194]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE WAR IN 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, depending on whom you listen to, the 
insurgents in Iraq are either in their last throes or they are growing 
in size and strength. But both the administration and critics seem to 
agree that the U.S. military will be deployed to Iraq for a long time 
to come. It is our quagmire.
  Every day our forces wake up in Iraq, more die and are wounded, and 
more families on the home front are strained and suffer losses. At some 
terrible point in the future, the Nation's leaders will say, Enough is 
enough. Whether the number of casualties at that point will be 5,000 or 
10,000 or 50,000, I do not know. Whether the cost at that point will be 
$250 billion, $350 billion, or $500 billion, I do not know. At some 
point, the terrible arithmetic of the war will add up to overwhelm 
everybody.
  But this war can end another way. It can end if enough Members of 
Congress consider and cosponsor House Joint Resolution 55, a bipartisan 
bill introduced last week to require the President to initiate troop 
withdrawal no later than October 1, 2006. Thank the troops, and bring 
them home.

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