Political Quotes

“this amendment on this Defense appropriations bill goes to the most important single foreign policy issue facing America: If this is a bill about spending for the military, this may be the most important single amendment we could consider. Senator Feingold and Senator Harry Reid have brought this amendment to the floor. It has been discussed before. It is an amendment which goes to the very fundamental question: When will we start bringing American troops home from Iraq? The President, of course, and his administration have been reluctant to even suggest that possibility will come. I think the President went so far as to say that of the 160,000 troops or more in Iraq, perhaps 5,000 or so will be home by Christmas. At that rate, of course, this President will leave office with almost the same number as we have today, risking their lives in the heat of combat in Iraq. Many of us remember the beginning of this war and how the American people were misled into this war. The American people were told that weapons of mass destruction threatened the United States, threatened our allies such as Israel, threatened the stability in the world. We were given chapter and verse and detailed descriptions of biological weapons and chemical weapons and nuclear weapons. We were told Saddam Hussein had arsenals of these weapons.”