Political Quotes

“I rise today to show support for the Out of Iraq Caucus and to add my voice to this much needed debate on the war in Iraq. Mr. Speaker, I voted against this war because I thought it was a mistake from the beginning. Iraq was not an imminent threat to our security, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and it has never been a part of American foreign policy to preemptively invade another country in order to spread our will on their citizens. But Mr. Speaker we are in Iraq now, the President has committed our troops there and we now have an obligation to fix the mess that we've made over there. But how long do we stay the course when the course that we have been on has not been a successful one. How long do we keep our troops in a country where they are not treated as liberators, but are instead fueling the violence there just by their mere presence? The American people are starting to realize that this war was a mistake. The reason for going to war was wrong, the planning for keeping the peace after the war was nonexistent, and there does not seem to be any clear indication of what victory in Iraq looks like. This was a war of choice and the people of Iraq are very suspicious about our motives for being there. Many people in and out of Iraq believed America's motivation for invading Iraq had more to do with its oil fields and strategic location in the Middle East, than with its supposed weapons of mass destruction.…”