[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14770]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     ADMINISTRATION POLICIES IN IRAQ BASED ON FAILURE AND FALSEHOOD

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, our proud troops in Iraq last night deserved 
an address that showed a President committed to effectiveness and 
truth. The sad fact is that these administration policies are based on 
failure and falsehood.
  The failure is that, a full 2 years after the Iraq war started, we 
still have less than 15 percent, less than three battalions, that this 
administration has effectively trained that are ready for combat 
operations to replace American military personnel and bring them home.
  This is a spectacular record of failure. After 2 years of us here in 
this Chamber demanding that the President train these troops so that 
they can replace the American GIs and Marines, we have three 
battalions, and that is it; after 2 years?
  This has happened because of the rose-colored glasses that this 
administration has worn, thinking we were going to be greeted like 
liberators in Paris. They were wrong. And it is based on falsehood, 
falsehood when the President stood right behind me and said that there 
was WMDs. There was not, and now he is trying to bait and switch.

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