[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20802-20803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE NEED FOR AN EXIT STRATEGY 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. Madam Speaker, 3 years ago we heard the drums of war 
beating in this House Chamber, and Congress voted to take this Nation 
to war against Iraq.
  We later learned that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, was 
not trying to get uranium from Niger, had no intention nor capability 
of attacking the United States. Yet we went to war and war against Iraq 
remains.
  We went to war without any thought of how we would get out of that 
war. We went to war with a big buildup; but when it came to talking 
about an exit from Iraq, there was very little or no discussion except 
for the one thing, Democrats and Republicans alike to come together, in 
support of House Joint Resolution 55, a resolution that requires the 
administration to produce, by the end of the year, an exit strategy and 
to begin the execution of that strategy by October 1 of 2006.
  We owe it to those who serve. We owe it to the troops who gave their 
lives.

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We owe it to their parents and to their families, to have an exit 
strategy so that we can let the world community take the burden of the 
years ahead in Iraq.

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