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Tim Ryan: Thank you. When you don't plan, when you don't follow through, when you don't have an exit strategy, that is what…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2006
Thank you. When you don't plan, when you don't follow through, when you don't have an exit strategy, that is what happens. So, my friend, what do we do when you have an administration and a Congress that are so reckless and so ill prepared for what the consequences are going to be that that happens? You have the Iraqi leaders and the Iranian leaders shaking hands and building alliances. We could see it coming. You can see it coming. Do you reward them with re-election? Do you say the people who got us into this position, we are going to ask them to come in and clean it up too? It has been bad preparation. It has been misleading information up to the point that ultimately leads to this. And no one has been fired. And as Mr. Murtha said so eloquently, not only hasn't anybody been fired, but the members and the architects of this have been promoted. Mr. Wolfowitz, who was Under Secretary of Defense, is now with the World Bank. He got a promotion. Mr. Rumsfeld is still there. All the underlings are still there.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Addressing the consequences of U.S. policy in Iraq and the accountability of its leaders.

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