Kay Bailey Hutchison: “The sense of the Senate says we support helping Iraq as it builds a new democracy and believe we need to finish what we…”

“The sense of the Senate says we support helping Iraq as it builds a new democracy and believe we need to finish what we have started there and in Afghanistan. It is critical that this reconstruction effort have a multilateral approach, that our allies would help us in the war on terrorism, because our allies are reaping the benefits of this war on terrorism. No one will be free in the world if we lose the war on terrorism. It is essential we have all of the support we need to finish this job. So we ask the administration to continue to seek commitments during the donors conference and afterward. It encourages the President to provide aid in a way that promotes economic growth in Iraq and limits the long-term cost to our taxpayers. The President is in the best position to determine how to accomplish this, and we must support him in every way. That is my amendment, my sense of the Senate. I hope we can support it and vote for it.”