[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14769]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    PRESIDENT'S SPEECH TO THE NATION

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, last night we watched a very sad event. 
The President of the United States came out here to try and convince 
the American people to support him yet again.

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  The problem is that the President did not recognize while he was 
standing there that nobody trusts his judgment.
  Nobody trusts the vice president's judgment, the man who says we are 
in the last throes of the problems in Baghdad. Even Rumsfeld has come 
forward and said, ``We are going to be there 12 years.''
  Now, Mr. Speaker, when the President comes and tries to sell us 
another 12 years and says things are going well, it just does not work. 
This was ill-conceived. It was ill-prepared for. It has been poorly 
executed by the management, not by the troops on the ground. They have 
done the best they could. But they are there because the President of 
the United States wanted them there.
  This is George Bush's war. This is not a war on terrorism; this is a 
war of conquest by George Bush.

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