Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
01/31/2008
Pelosi Statement on Halting U.S. Surge Troop Reductions
Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the
following statement today in reaction to news reports that gradual reductions
in U.S. surge troops in Iraq could be halted this summer:
"Halting the modest reduction in
"The President's
"Meanwhile, as a report by former NATO commander
General James Jones makes clear, NATO 'is not winning' the real war against
terrorism in Afghanistan.' And an Army
study reportedly reveals that suicides among Army personnel are at record
levels.
"The President's failure to end the war in