Lee Terry: “I hope the American public sees the irony in the votes that we are going to take this afternoon and evening. Before us…”

“I hope the American public sees the irony in the votes that we are going to take this afternoon and evening. Before us now we are going to take a vote to pull out of Iraq immediately. Then, right after that, we are going to take a vote to fund the troops so they can stay a while. So I guess the only difference between the House Democrats today and Senator Kerry a year ago, where he voted for Iraq before he voted against Iraq, is that our friends get to do it all in the same day. Now, the other irony that I thought was interesting today is that we had a visitor, the deputy prime minister of Iraq, that was coming here with a message of what is really going on in Iraq. And he met with a group of us this morning in HC-9, separated only by a thin wall to the caucus that was occurring with our friends from the other side of the aisle where they were plotting the strategy of how to get out of Iraq. I think it shows one of the differences between the two parties where we are meeting with the government officials on how to get them stood up, how do we strengthen the government there so they can take over their own operations without falling to the al Qaeda; at the same time, our friends are plotting on the other side to pull out and abandon them. I think the day is just full of ironies, and I hope that the general public gets to see those today.”