[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 22501-22502]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               A NEW CONGRESS AND A NEW DIRECTION IN IRAQ

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, the American public did not vote for the 
Iraq Study Group. They voted for a new Congress and a new direction in 
Iraq: Out.
  Now, many who voted for change will be surprised to learn that there 
are some who say they oppose the war and will continue to fund it in 
the name of supporting the troops. We will not abandon our troops in 
the field, some solemnly pronounce, while continuing to fund a war that 
even generals say cannot be won militarily.
  Well, then, we have already abandoned our troops in the field. We 
have abandoned them to lies about why the war was being fought. We have 
abandoned them to getting shot at from all sides. We have left them in 
a type of hell where we profess a strange love for them by keeping them 
there.
  The money is in the pipeline right now to bring the troops home now; 
$70 billion was appropriated for Iraq on October 1. The administration 
will ask for another $160 billion in the spring. That is a total of 
$230 billion for the Iraq war. In less than 2 years the war on the so-
called defense budgets will cost more than $1 trillion.
  Stop wasting money. Stop wasting lives. Bring the troops home now and 
cut off funds for more war.

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