Political Quotes

“the President's representative from the military is on Capitol Hill urging us to continue to stay in Iraq, telling us to wait, don't leave. What are we waiting for, until the cost of the war reaches $6 trillion, so that our American economy goes totally bust, so that we don't have any more money for education or health care or housing? What are we waiting for, for the casualties to get to 10,000 or 20,000 deaths of our service men and women? What are we waiting for, for America to stand alone against the world? It is time that we take a new direction. It is time that Congress regain its rightful role as a coequal branch of government. It is not appropriate for leaders in Congress to say, well, it is the administration's fault that the war continues, when in fact we have the authority to cut off funds. Congress must take a strong stand and say no more funding; end the war, stop the occupation, close the bases, bring the troops home, set in motion an international peacekeeping and security force that comes in as our troops leave, work for a program of reconciliation between the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds, work for a program of repatriations, and stop trying to control the oil of Iraq.”