Mike Pence: “I rise respectfully to urge my colleagues in both parties to vote ``no'' on this no-confidence resolution. I support the…”

“I rise respectfully to urge my colleagues in both parties to vote ``no'' on this no-confidence resolution. I support the President's call for a surge of 21,500 forces in Baghdad because the President has not just asked for more troops for more troops' sake. This is a new strategy. It involves new tactics and new rules of engagement on the ground. This surge of forces in Baghdad, designed to quell violence in that capital city and enable a political solution to take hold, was part and parcel of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which said, as Americans could see for themselves on page 74 of the Iraq Study Group, a temporary surge of forces in Baghdad would be acceptable to them to quell violence. But while I must tell you that many of my colleagues have no confidence in the President's new way forward in Iraq, I say with respect, I have no confidence in the ability of Congress to conduct war.”