I didn't introduce this as a Partisan resolution. I go by Arlington Cemetery every day. And the vice president -- he criticizes Democrats. Let me tell you, those gravestones don't say Democrat or Republican, they say American!

Reducing the size and visibility of the coalition forces in Iraq is part of our counterinsurgency strategy.

All of Iraq must know that Iraq is free, free from the United States' occupation. I believe this will send a signal to the Sunnis to join the political process for a good and free Iraq.

General Casey said in a September 2005 hearing, the perception of occupation in Iraq is a major driving force behind the insurgency.

We're not winning. We can't win with the number of troops we have. So, the alternative is, we should get out of there, because we are becoming the target. We're making the situation worse.

The U.S. can not accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It's time to bring the troops home.

It's time to bring them home. They have done everything they can do. The military has done everything they can do. This war has been so mishandled from the very start.

They can't speak for themselves. These -- these soldiers are the most proud. They follow discipline. They can't -- we -- we're obligated to speak for them.

It's time for the troops to come home. The people of Iraq don't want the United States there.

we have said for the last year and a half, if you remember I said a year ago, we are not going to be able to prevail unless we get the Iraqis to take over the fighting themselves. Now, we put $5.7 billion in. I think we are going to…

when I went down to Austin after the election, but before the inauguration, I said to President Bush, President-elect Bush, we should worry more about terrorism and nuclear nonproliferation than worry about missile defense. But we worked…

in regards to what the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) just said, I am surprised at the new chairman. He is so lenient about getting time out of him. Usually our bill moves much faster than this. I thought he learned. Let me say the…

in my estimation, the Pope was instrumental in helping to bring down communism. His words in Poland, ``Don't be afraid,'' resonated throughout the world against tyranny, despotism and injustice.

the gentleman should take full credit. He is the one who asked and the one that recognized it, and we are certainly glad for the Subcommittee on Foreign Operation, Export Financing and Related Programs; but he is the guy that made sure…

there is no one who has worked harder on this issue than the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer). The committee is very aware of it, and we put report language in to make sure to try and go in the direction the gentleman tried to. We…

I would hope we would be able to work this out. I do not know if we will add to the $204 million, but we certainly can take this $5 million if the gentleman thinks it is this important. He has been involved in this for so long. We will try…

Sometimes we put humanitarian aid, and we do not have the resources to get it to the people who really need it, and al Qaeda and the terrorists actually use the money to their benefit.

Wait a minute. The gentleman says it is a little project. This is a project you are advocating. This is not a little project. It is a project you are advocating. It is $5 million.

we know she has been at the forefront of this issue. We know that so many service people have been affected by the fact they have been overseas, and then they come home, and in the bill last year we said when they come home, each person…

we have $409 million in this program. I think it is premature what she asks here. But if the gentlewoman would withdraw her amendment, we will certainly take it into consideration and try to work something out here because there is no…

it is hard to add anything to what the chairman said, but I have found over the years it has cost us more in many cases to close these bases than we have saved. But in this particular case, I think we have got a different problem. About a…

I went to Austin with the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis), the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Young) after the President was elected but before he was inaugurated, and I sat at his table, and I said to him, Mr. President, you do not…

I am concerned in the first place, as I said before, that no one on this side was consulted about this resolution. I am embarrassed, I am indignant that they did not consult me. This looks like an innocuous resolution, but when it says it…

I am indignant, I am insulted, and I am embarrassed that no one came to me and asked me about this resolution. Nobody said, Do you have any input? Nobody has supported this war. The gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) and I put a bill on…

the first trip I took to Kuwait, it was right before the war started and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi) had asked me to accompany her, because for her first foreign trip she wanted to go, even though she was not for the war…