Deborah Koff Ross: “The gentleman from Georgia raises an excellent point that gets to our point about accountability within our government.…”

“The gentleman from Georgia raises an excellent point that gets to our point about accountability within our government. If you ask a hundred different people what they think about this post-war Iraq policy, you get a hundred different answers. One of the things that I most proud of is that this time, and I think it is one of the painful lessons we learn as a Nation and as a people from Vietnam. But this time, this time we are seeing the American people united behind our men and women in uniform, and that makes me proud to be an American. I have a brother-in-law who spent Christmas refueling Air Force planes over Afghanistan. My first cousin, his wife gave birth to their first child while he was away serving our country in Iraq. And I am not one of those that believe that we can simply pull out and come home tonight, but I will tell you this, I do believe in accountability. This President, this Republican Congress, is spending $8 billion a month in Iraq; $2 billion a week, $11 billion an hour in Iraq. But if you ask this President to be accountable for it, if you ask him what his plan is to win the peace and eventually bring our men and women in uniform home, he will tell you that you are unpatriotic. And that is where I disagree with this President. Accountability. Accountable for the money, the tax money that is being spent in Iraq, and having a plan that will eventually bring our people home.…”