Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
08/28/2007
Pelosi: President’s Iraq Policy Is Failing to Reduce the Threat of Terrorism in the Middle East
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this afternoon on President Bush’s remarks today to the American Legion in Reno,
“The President’s assertion that his escalation has been fully operational for two and a half months misses the point. American men and women have been fighting and dying in
“Rather than reducing the threat of terrorism and promoting stability in the Middle East, the President’s
“The President’s speech comes on a day when thousands of Americans are participating in town hall meetings and candlelight vigils across the country to demand a new direction in
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AMERICA NEEDS A NEW DIRECTION IN IRAQ
Since January of this year, we have lost 729 brave servicemen and women to the war in
· June, July and August 2007 marked the bloodiest summer so far for
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· As of August 27th, 3,728
SUPPORT SLIPPING AMONG BUSH ALLIES FOR PRESIDENT’S FAILED
· On August 23rd, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. John Warner said: “We must start an orderly, carefully-planned, thought-out redeployment” Later in the weekend, Sen. Warner described the Iraqi government as having “totally failed” to deliver on security and reconciliation. [Fox News, 8/24/07; MSNBC, 8/26/07]
· According to a recent bipartisan survey produced by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress, 64 percent of conservative experts say the troop “surge” is having a negative or no impact on the war in
· Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell described
GRIM PICTURE FOR IRAQIS
· The level of sectarian violence in
· In the worst single incident of violence in Iraq since the war began, more than 500 Yazidis – an ethic minority group – were killed and more than 1,500 wounded in a series of coordinated bomb attacks in the Sinjar district of Iraq. [International Herald Tribune, 8/21/07]
· Recent reports indicate
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AMERICANS WANT A NEW DIRECTION IN
· 66 percent of Americans support withdrawing all of