House Proceeding on Feb 14th, 2007 :: 1:25:37 to 1:31:19
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Speech By: Tom Davis

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Tom Davis: yielding. mr. speaker, i rise in support of house concurrent resolution 63. despite the brave efforts of our troops, the situation in iraq continues to deteriorate. our troops have gone

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Carolyn McCarthy: above and beyond the call of duty. unfortunately they are caught in the middle of sectarian violence. from the onset of the conflict, there has been mismanagement and mishandling from this administration.

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Speech By: Carolyn McCarthy

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Carolyn McCarthy: the administration was not prepared for the violence following the removal of saddam hussein. in addition, the previous congress did not do its job. the 110th congress held the first oversight

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Carolyn McCarthy: hearing since the invasion in 2003. that's four years without a congressional oversight. i have heard so many speeches here saying that we support the troops. i think everyone -- every

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Carolyn McCarthy: single member supports the troops. yet all those years that we were hearing from the families and from our soldiers themselves saying they didn't have the equipment, they didn't have certainly

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Carolyn McCarthy: the equipment to keep them safe where were we? where were we as members to making sure that our military had the best equipment? since january we have had 52 oversight hearings on iraq. that

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Carolyn McCarthy: turns out that nearly $12 billion from the american taxpayers have not been accounted for. that's $12 billion that could have been spent on our equipment to protect our troops. our troops

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Carolyn McCarthy: deserve better. the president explained his new plan for iraq last week. again i hear that we must stand by the president. well, i was one that stood by the president. i voted with the president.

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Carolyn McCarthy: i voted for every appropriation for the president. and now he's doing the same thing. it's not working. it hasn't worked. it's time for a new plan. it called for an increase of 20,000 more

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Carolyn McCarthy: troops in iraq. unfortunately i am afraid this is a little bit too late. we needed hundreds of thousands of troops in the beginning. that's when our generals asked for those troops and they were

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Carolyn McCarthy: denied. the truth of the matter is we did this war on the cheap. we didn't do it right in the beginning. now we are all paying the consequences. throughout the conflicts our troop levels

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Carolyn McCarthy: have changed. we have sent more troops in when our generals called for them. then they would made smaller. this is no fault of our troops. the exact numbers do not claim the situation. i do

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Carolyn McCarthy: not believe that putting more of our brave men and women in harm's way is the solution to this conflict. president bush emphasizes intentions of placing more authority and responsibility on the

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Carolyn McCarthy: iraqi government. it's about time. we have spent a lot of money to train the police officers, to train their military, and yet they are not standing up for their own country. prime minister

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Carolyn McCarthy: maliki has not proven that he can stop the violence that is going on in his country. that should not mean that our troops should. our troops are trained for a war. not to settle political differences

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Carolyn McCarthy: in that country. he has failed to bring equal representations of the sunnis and shiites into the iraqi government. this shortfall has fueled sectarian violence putting our troops in greater harm.

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Carolyn McCarthy: poor planning by civilian leaders within the administration has placed our brave men and women in harm's way. our troops have gone above and beyond the call of duty. they have served our country

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Carolyn McCarthy: bravely and honorably and we all know that. many of these troops have served their full tours of duty in iraq. and they have left behind family and friends to defend this great nation. more than

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Carolyn McCarthy: 3,000 of our men and women have made the ultimate sacrifice and not one of them, in my opinion, has died in vain. because they were doing their duty, we sent them there, and they have

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Carolyn McCarthy: lived up to that. and thousands more have suffered debilitating injuries. it's time to shift the burden of this conflict to the iraqis themselves. we have a responsibility in congress to make

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Carolyn McCarthy: sure that our troops aren't put in unnecessary harm's way. president bush has made his decisions without consulting through experts and retired generals. where was all the information that

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Carolyn McCarthy: we needed years ago as far as bringing the experts? knowing what the culture was in the middle east. . that's something we are not grasping here. decisions have not clearly been thought out and

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Carolyn McCarthy: our troops have paid the price. i've come to the conclusion that a phase redeployment of our troops is in the best option. no one is talking about afghanistan either. you know, when we started

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Carolyn McCarthy: we were winning in afghanistan. when we took those troops out of afghanistan, we saw the insurgents coming in. we can put our troops along the borders. we can stop the insurgents coming into

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Carolyn McCarthy: iraq while the iraqi government tries to solve their own problems. we can go back into afghanistan and make sure that we sure up that country so more insurgents and a military equipment are

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Carolyn McCarthy: not coming from that country. we must show the american people and our allies, by the way, who are leaving. they are not supporting us. it's not just democrats and a lot of our republican colleagues

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Carolyn McCarthy: that feel that we should get out. our strategy has been wrong. it's time to work together, and i'm hoping after all of these debates, when we come back from our break, we can actually go

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Carolyn McCarthy: to our committees and come up with a way to solve these problems, not only for america but for the world. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

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Carolyn McCarthy: from michigan. mr. hoekstra: at this time i'd like to yield five minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. thornberry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for five

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Mac Thornberry: minutes. mr. thornberry: mr. speaker, i have listened to much of the debate yesterday and today, and i appreciate the efforts of my colleague from michigan to remind and educate us all about

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Speech By: Mac Thornberry