[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19763]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  IRAQ

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the President says he looks to the 
generals on how to prosecute the war in Iraq. Yesterday, two generals 
from the Army and a Marine colonel who had all served in Iraq called 
for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld.
  The President has repeatedly claimed he listens to the military. 
Well, General John Batiste told an oversight hearing that Rumsfeld and 
others in the Bush White House ``did not tell the American people the 
truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq.''
  The generals have spoken, Mr. President. Your Defense Secretary 
misled us into combat with disastrous consequences. Rumsfeld has failed 
our soldiers and the American people. He just ordered another 4,000 
into Iraq, into the cauldron of violence that his incompetence has 
created.
  The generals have spoken, Mr. Speaker. Tell the President to listen 
to us. Will you? Somebody has got to talk to the President. He doesn't 
seem to listen to Members of Congress. The generals have now spoken. 
What is he waiting for? Perhaps it is the election.

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