Bill Pascrell: “their side of the aisle, your side of the aisle, has a major problem. Yesterday, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki…”

“their side of the aisle, your side of the aisle, has a major problem. Yesterday, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki suggested that they would provide amnesty for those people who killed or who wounded our soldiers. We are going to see who are the patriots here in the future. In a speech that Jack Murtha gave on April 20 this year, he started off by talking about President Teddy Roosevelt. He said, ``There must be no criticism of the President or that we have to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.'' You are going to have to explain that. You made a very big mistake. I voted for the war, for the efforts of the President, the Chief, the Commander in Chief in December of 2002. And here we are a few years later, looking back at what that decision was based upon. Talk about impunity, we have had people come on the floor in the last 2 years to impugn this gentleman's character. The CIA impugned the very facts that the administration has tried to provide. Every day a former CIA agent says that this administration failed to listen to the advice and counsel of those folks who have boots on the ground. That is a shame. And the other side, the other side has simply provided a rubber stamp, a rubber stamp to all of the policies.…”