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For Immediate Release
03/27/2008
Pelosi Statement on President Bush’s Speech Today on Iraq
Washington, D.C.
– Speaker Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement in reaction to
the President’s speech on Iraq
at the U.S. Air Force museum:
“President Bush’s speech today on Iraq failed to offer any plan for
the safe return of our brave men and women.
In fact, the Administration reportedly is preparing to tell the American
people that we must maintain 140,000 troops in Iraq indefinitely.
“The war will cost Americans more than $3 trillion and
continues to jeopardize our military’s ability to respond to threats anywhere
else on the globe. Money spent in Iraq is
desperately needed at home to educate our children, rebuild our infrastructure
and provide health care for millions of Americans.
“Rather than offering more rhetoric that continues to be
divorced from reality, the President owes it to those bravely serving in Iraq today, and
to their fallen comrades, a plan to bring an end to this tragedy.”