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Tom Harkin: “the chaos in Iraq gets worse with every week that goes by. Many key cities are now under the control of the insurgents.…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2004
the chaos in Iraq gets worse with every week that goes by. Many key cities are now under the control of the insurgents. Virtually every day we see car bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, beheadings. American soldiers and Iraqi civilians are being attacked and killed at an alarming and escalating rate. But if we listen to the President, what we hear is sugar-coated happy talk. The President says: We're making progress. We're making progress. He says we have a strong government in Iraq headed by Mr. Allawi. He says that because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, democracy is spreading ``like a sunrise.'' Well, the President may have been a cheerleader in college, but we need more than cheerleading now. Let's be clear: President Bush misled us into this war, and he is misleading us today about where we stand in Iraq. His misguided, mismanaged war has become a quagmire with ever-rising body counts and no end in sight.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Addressing the situation in Iraq and criticizing President Bush's handling of the war.

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