Political Quotes

“I say that it is time to support our troops. We can best support our troops by bringing them home, by having the U.N. become involved. Bring the U.N. in and get the U.S. out. Support our troops; bring them home. If we support $87 billion on the next installment of our involvement in Iraq, what we are doing is supporting the continuation of the presence of American troops in Iraq. Make no mistake about it, this is only the second of many installments. There have been projections that the American presence there could cost now at least $245 billion. There are other projections that say it could be many hundreds of billions of dollars more. I presented for the consideration of Members of this House a plan that would get the U.N. in and the U.S. out, and the features of this plan are as follows: Number one, we go to the U.N. with a resolution that would permit the United Nations to handle all of the oil assets of Iraq, without any privatization, to handle that on behalf of the Iraqi people; number two, to handle all the contracts in Iraq without any sweetheart deals on behalf of certain select contractors; number three, to have the U.N. handle the cause of new governance in Iraq. It is time for the United States to rejoin the world community.”