[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19765]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              IRAQ WAR CREATING MORE TERRORISTS, NOT LESS

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, for 5 weeks President Bush has been telling the 
American people that they are safer now than they were before 9/11 even 
though all 16 of his intelligence agencies were telling him that simply 
was not the case.
  The Bush administration's own spy agencies say we are less safe 
today, and they put the blame on the President's decision to invade 
Iraq.
  If President Bush and Republicans here in Congress are serious on 
winning the global war on terror, they would not ignore this classified 
report and would finally join us in coming up with a new strategy for 
Iraq.
  It is clear that staying the course is simply not working. We have 
lost nearly 2,700 troops and spent upwards of $320 billion. And yet 
there are still no positive developments on the ground. In fact, things 
seem to be getting worse as more than 100 Iraqis are now being killed 
every day.
  Mr. Speaker, the war in Iraq and the occupation is making our Nation 
less safe. It is time that we redeploy our troops out of Iraq so we can 
finally achieve some form of national security. I mean real national 
security and real peace.

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