[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8267-8268]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     IT IS TIME TO GET OUT OF IRAQ

  (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, yesterday's Washington Post carried two 
pages of pictures of our brave young men and women who were killed in 
Iraq.
  This war is an abstraction for most Americans, but not for the 
families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. The fallen soldiers' 
contributions will never be diminished. What they stood for is in the 
highest service to this Nation.
  But we must ask questions of those who sent them, of those who would

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keep our troops there, of those who would send even more troops, of 
those who say, well, now that we are there, we must stay there. Such 
logic would have left us still fighting a war in Vietnam.
  How can we move on to other matters in this Capitol when we are 
sending more men and women to die in a war that was based on a lie? 
This war has forever altered the lives of tens of thousands of families 
in this country and hundred of thousands in Iraq.
  Enough is enough. It is time for an exit strategy. It is time to get 
out of Iraq.

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