[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12911]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              ANSWERS NEEDED FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING IRAQ

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, if you do not know where you are 
going, you are never going to get there. Another truism is that you do 
not begin a war without a plan to win the peace.
  Is it now well past time for the legislative branch to ask of the 
executive branch the very things that our constituents are demanding of 
us: What is the White House's strategy for success in Iraq? How many 
Iraqi troops need to be adequately trained and sufficiently equipped, 
to take over the military protection of that country? How many Iraqi 
police forces are needed to restore law and order? How many more 
American dollars are needed to rebuild the infrastructure so that 
nation can be economically viable? And what does this administration 
consider to be political stability?
  These are reasonable questions. We should have had the answers before 
we went to war, but we must demand them now. It is unfair, not only to 
the mothers and fathers of our soldiers, but to our senior military 
officers of our country not to know where they are headed in Iraq.

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