[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1941-1942]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     OUR TROOPS NEED TO LEAVE IRAQ

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, so what is the state of our Union? It is 
war. It is neglect of an overt agenda. The President will come to our 
country tonight, and he will give us more war, 21,500 troops sent to 
escalate the war in Iraq, a war that has cost the lives of 650,000 
innocent Iraqi civilians.
  We need our President to realize that it is time to take a new 
direction, and that direction is out of Iraq. It is time to end the 
occupation, to withdraw our troops, to close the bases. It is time for 
us to work with the international community in an overall peace plan, 
which I presented to this Congress. The Kucinich plan calls for not 
only ending the occupation, withdrawing troops, closing the bases, but 
also an international peace plan that enables the Iraqi people to have 
the security they need through reconciliations, through reparations, 
and through paying for reconstruction.
  The United States must lead the way with the international community 
in a plan for peace. The President must take a new direction.

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