[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22020]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          END THE WAR IN 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, one week ago, the American people sent a 
message to this Congress; that message had to do with Iraq. Were the 
American people asking us to send more troops? No, they want the troops 
to come home. Were they looking to expand the war? No, they want to end 
the war.
  There is only one way to end this war: cut off funds. The White House 
doesn't believe Congress will exercise this power. That is why the 
President is determined to stay in Iraq through the end of his term. He 
may have let go of Rumsfeld, but he is not going to let go of the war. 
The President is trapped, trapped by lies, fabricated intelligence, 
pretensions to empire, desire for oil and prophetic illusions.
  The truth shall set the President and the Congress free; the truth 
that it was wrong to go into Iraq. It is wrong to stay there. It is 
time to bring our troops home. It is time to get the world community 
involved in a transition to help secure the Iraqi people. The truth is 
we broke Iraq, but we can't fix it by staying. We can fix it only by 
admitting we were wrong and paying for reconstruction financially but 
not with the lives of our brave troops.
  It is time to cut off the funds; time to end the war against Iraq; 
time to bring our troops home; time for a new energy policy; time to 
reconnect with the world; time for hope, not fear.

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