Mike Pence: “despite what many Americans may see on cable television networks over the last several months, as I learned again today…”

“despite what many Americans may see on cable television networks over the last several months, as I learned again today in a meeting with the President of the United States; the Secretary of Defense; with General Casey, the four-star general in charge of Operation Iraqi Freedom, through a satellite link, Mr. Speaker, we are winning the war in Iraq. And 7 days from today in the midst of an ongoing victory for the freedom of tens of millions of Iraqi people, we will once again see the people of Iraq use the freedom won by the American soldier in forming their own government and adopting parliamentary elections. The ongoing victory in Iraq was described by the President at a speech just 1 week ago at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; and like the meeting that I attended at the White House today, I had the privilege of joining the President for that address, and there he described his strategy for victory. And let me say that while there have been sometimes loud and cacophonous debates on this floor about the need for a plan or the lack of a plan, what is available today, Mr. Speaker, at whitehouse.gov for all Americans to examine is a recently declassified version of what has always been the plan. It is, in effect, a three-track approach that involves political, military, and economic initiatives to achieve a free and stable and democratic Iraq, and we are winning in this cause.…”