Political Quotes

“We are talking about what is certainly the most important issue facing the country, as anyone would agree, which is the war in Iraq. We are talking about accountability. As the gentleman pointed out, we have a President that seems to be struggling with accountability right now. If you look at what has happened in Iraq, we talk about the surge. We are going to have this report in September on whether the surge has worked. We all pray that we get good news in September, that General Petraeus is going to come in and give us an accurate assessment and, hopefully, that assessment will be that things are turning around. But it does not appear at this point that that is the case. In fact, as you well know, Mr. Hodes, the last 3 months where the surge has been fully in effect and we have been over there, have been the bloodiest 3 months in the 4 1/2 years we have been in Iraq. The last 3 months have been the worst 3 months. That does not bode well for the effectiveness of the surge. As you said, we are over 3,500 now that have been killed and 25,000 injured, wounded and that is just a tragic situation.”