[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18037]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        PRESIDENT BUSH CONTINUES TO MISREPRESENT THE WAR IN IRAQ

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, in his speech on Monday night, 
President Bush continued to try to justify the invasion of Iraq by 
drawing nonexistent links to the 9/11 attacks. The President's misuse 
of the fifth anniversary of the attacks shows that he will go to any 
length to divert our attention from his failures in Iraq, which has 
diverted focus from America's real national security concerns.
  President Bush, and most Republicans here in Congress, refuse to 
admit that things are not going well in Iraq. One has to only look at a 
report that we requested from the President's own Pentagon showing that 
the situation in Iraq has greatly worsened. The number of attacks 
against Americans and Iraqis has climbed to its highest level since the 
war began, and in the month of July alone 100 Iraqis a day were being 
killed.
  U.S. troops continue to pay too high a price. To date, more than 
2,600 brave American soldiers have lost their lives, an additional 
19,000 have been wounded, and we have now spent over $320 billion in 
Iraq. Do we really need to lose 58,000 soldiers before we stop staying 
the same course in Iraq as we did in Vietnam?
  It is time for a new strategy in Iraq, one where the Iraqis 
themselves, not foreign occupiers, are responsible for their Nation's 
future

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