Political Quotes

“the surge has now been going for 6 months. More than 600 Americans have been killed, thousands have been wounded, costing our country $60 billion. The National Intelligence Estimate which was issued today--was leaked by someone last week--is very clear: There are two al-Qaidas now; there used to be one. There is al-Qaida in Iraq, totally separate and apart from the other al-Qaida that bin Laden led. Where did it come from? It came from the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of our country, the invasion of Iraq. My friend, the junior Senator from Kentucky, should understand, as a result of that invasion we now have a civil war raging in the Palestinian areas of Lebanon, the country of Israel has been basically ignored during this administration, and we have Iran thumbing their nose at us. For the information of my friend from Kentucky, there would not be a civil war in Iraq, there already is one. It is an intractable civil war. We Americans are there in spite of the fact that the Iraqis, by an almost 70 percent margin, 69 percent to be exact, say we are doing more harm than good; they want us out of there. The Prime Minister of Iraq said 3 days ago that he could do fine without us. Anytime we want to leave, his security would take over. Now, wake up America? America is awake. They understand very clearly we have a situation where we have a President that will be in office only another 17 months, and they want the war to end before he leaves office.”