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Chuck Schumer: The experts--intelligence, military, diplomatic--tell the administration what they are doing is wrong, tell the…

On the recordFebruary 7, 2007
The experts--intelligence, military, diplomatic--tell the administration what they are doing is wrong, tell the administration that all the signs on the ground point to a policy that is failing, and they keep their head in the sand and just go forward. It is a tragedy. It is a tragedy when truth is not exalted and when there is a desire to stifle debate, as has happened in the administration and is happening on the floor of the Senate today. We all love this country, everyone in this Chamber, regardless of politics, but at least for me--and I dearly love America--every day we delay hurts us a little more and a little more and a little more. We dig ourselves deeper in a hole from which it will be harder and harder to extricate ourselves.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the failure of the administration's policy and the stifling of debate in the Senate.

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