[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TIME TO END IRAQ WAR

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, today we mark another sad milestone in our 
involvement in Iraq with the announcement that 2,000 Americans have 
died.
  It is time to end this war. This war was based on fiction: there were 
no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to al Qaeda, no imminent 
threat. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this war. We 
are bankrupting our Nation.
  Great nations, Mr. Speaker, sometimes make mistakes, as I believe we 
have done in this case. This war was a mistake. It is wrong; let us fix 
it. America can do better. Not one more dollar, not one more death.

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