Rep. Miller Opposes Bush troop Increase for Iraq War
REP. MILLER OPPOSES BUSH TROOP
INCREASE FOR IRAQ WAR
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) is urging President Bush to cancel his expected call for an additional 20,000 American troops to be sent into combat in Iraq. Miller called on Bush instead to begin to redeploy American forces out of Iraq, turn the future of Iraq over to the Iraqi people, and bring the war to en end.
Miller is the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and the chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee. Speaker Pelosi has announced that the House is likely to take a vote on the House Floor on whatever plan President Bush unveils.
Below are excerpts from a speech Miller made on the House Floor Tuesday Evening.
“The President was advised at the outset of the war by one of his top generals to send in a larger American force in order to win. President Bush rejected that idea. Since then, he has tried at different times a ‘surge’ in American troops in an effort to win the war, and each time his effort has failed. Now he appears ready to defy the odds and take great risks with the lives of others in order to try his plan once more.”
“The war in Iraq was a mistake from the beginning, and I voted against authorizing this war. But regardless of one’s position then, clearly there is no sound basis now for increasing America’s military presence in Iraq.
“It is unconscionable to ask one more American soldier to fight and die in a civil war in Iraq.”
“The President must engage key nations, like Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and others in an effort to create a political solution in Iraq.”
“Mr. President, listen to the people of the nation of which you govern. They have spoken and they have spoken overwhelmingly. They reject the prolonging of the war in Iraq and they want our soldiers redeployed and brought home safely and they want it done now.”
Click here for transcript of the whole speech.
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