[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24075]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TIME FOR ORDERLY EXIT FROM IRAQ

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, since the President's escalation of the war 
in Iraq began, every month we have had more and more proud, dedicated 
people from Fort Lewis, Washington, and their families learn they were 
never coming home. Those men and women have been fed into Iraq by a 
President whose policies in Iraq were wrong at the beginning, were 
wrong in the middle, and will be wrong at the end.
  The fact is very clear from all of the reports that we have been 
reading in the last week: whether we stay 6 days or 6 weeks or 6 months 
or 60 years, the destiny of Iraq will be determined by the Iraqi 
people.
  And what we have learned in this escalation is that it failed; it has 
failed to accomplish its design of political reconciliation in Iraq. 
And until the Sunnis and Shiites reconcile their interests, all of the 
king's horses and all the king's men are not going to put Iraq together 
again. It is time for an orderly exit from Iraq.

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