[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 21488-21489]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EXIT STRATEGY

  (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, whether or not Iraq soon votes for a 
constitution, whether or not the Sunnis and the Shiites soon achieve 
peace, we in this Congress must soon take action for our Nation, for 
our troops, for our national interests to plan an exit strategy from 
Iraq and to commence it by October of 2006.
  That is the purpose of House Joint Resolution 55, a bipartisan 
resolution which requires the administration to create an exit strategy 
so we are not going to be in Iraq forever, so we do not put our sons' 
and daughters' lives on the line forever, so we have a defined strategy 
to get out.

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  It is time for us to take whatever bipartisan energy there is in this 
Chamber and direct it towards a new direction in Iraq, to bring our 
troops home, to involve the world community, to put an end to this 
sorry chapter of U.S. occupation.

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