Russ Feingold: “over the past year, I have come to the floor several times to express my concerns about the U.S. policy in Iraq. I have…”

“over the past year, I have come to the floor several times to express my concerns about the U.S. policy in Iraq. I have raised questions about what I have called the administration's ``shifting justifications'' for this war. I have raised questions, both before and after the conflict began, about the administration's plans for finding and securing weapons of mass destruction, for ensuring that the international community is willing to share the burden of reconstruction, and--perhaps most critically-- for making certain our action in Iraq does not detract from or undermine the fight against terrorism. I still have many of the same concerns today. I still am not confident that the American people have gotten all the answers and all the information they deserve. Now many in the administration clearly do not want to talk about weapons of mass destruction in too much detail. They don't really want to talk very much about distorted intelligence. These things are apparently old news in their view. We fought a war of choice. We remain deeply involved. American troops continue to die. Some don't want to talk anymore about those initial choices that were made. The President told the American people that the main reason he went to war was to prevent Iraq from using weapons of mass destruction against us.”