Senate Proceeding 02-06-07 on Feb 6th, 2007 :: 1:01:41 to 1:10:28
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Speech By: Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin: mr. mccain: will the senator yield for one more question? mr. reid: yes. mr. mccain: again, i appreciate the courtesy of the majority leader. isn't it true when you say you support the troops that you

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John Warner: disapprove of what they're doing and you don't think their mission is going to succeed? isn't it true that maybe some of the troops may not view that as an expression of support? i've talked to many

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Speech By: John Warner

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John Warner: men and women in the military in recent days ranking from private to general. and isn't it true that most of them, if you had the opportunity to talk to them, would say when they don't support my

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John Warner: mission, they don't support me. so isn't it a little bit, just a little bit of an intellectual problem there to say of course we support the troops, of course we support the troops, of course we

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John Warner: support the troops, but we're sending you over -- they're going because this is a nonbinding resolution. aren't we saying, we think you're going to fail, and this is a vote of no confidence? i don't

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John Warner: think any rational observer would view what the so-called warner, which is not a republican amendment, i might add, no matter whose name is on it, that isn't it true that when i look one of these

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John Warner: soldiers or marines in the eye and say, i really support you, my friend, and i know you're going in harm's way, and i don't think you're going to succeed, and i'm against your mission, but i support

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John Warner: you, they don't buy it. they don't buy it, i will say to my friend from nevada. and don't think that they do. so, i would ask my friend if it isn't true that a vote of no confidence is a vote of no confidence

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John Warner: to the men and women who are serving in the military. it doesn't sell. mr. reid: madam president, i also had the opportunity to go to iraq, i'm confident not as many times as my friend from arizona,

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John Warner: but i also speak to the troops. i speak to the people at the pentagon. i have to respectfully suggest to my friend that there are many individuals that i've spoken to who really like what we have suggested

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John Warner: -- we, the democrats -- that there be a redeployment of troops. does that mean they all pull out of iraq and leave immediately? of course it doesn't. but redeploy the troops. redeploy the troops.

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John Warner: redeploy them to do what? counterterrorism? enforce protection and training the iraqis. also, madam president, my contacts in the military say they think our proposal's pretty good. we were on this proposal

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John Warner: before the iraq study group, but they adopted it. i hope they got it from us. and that is there should be a raoepblg national conference -- a regional conference including saudi arabia, egypt, jordan,

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John Warner: syria, and, yes, iran. this is a regional problem. this war will not be handled and dealt with and taken care of militarily. it can only be done diplomatically. and, madam president, we are a wonderful

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John Warner: fighting force, and we will continue to be. but where we have lost our edge is diplomatically. we have not done well at all. and the people i've talked to in the military support what we're trying

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John Warner: to do. redeployment, they support a regional conference. they support, of course, recognizing this must be handled politically. it means, madam president, that there has to be some meaningful reconstruction

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John Warner: that goes forward, producing less oil now than before the war, less potable water, less electricity. these are things that have to be changed. the people i talk to in the military think we're headed

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John Warner: in the right direction. they also think we're headed in the right direction when we speak out for the state of deterioration of our military. this war has taken a toll on our equipment, not our troops

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John Warner: alone. on our equipment. it's going to cost $75 billion to bring the military up to the situation they were in prior to this war. and they are grateful that we're fighting for them in that regard.

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John Warner: so, madam president, i respect -- and i don't have the military background of my friend from arizona, but i have contacts in the military, and i think a lot of those people are more willing to

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John Warner: talk to me than someone who is running for president and someone is more noteworthy than i am. he is better known in the military -- and they know he can respond to them probably better than i.

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John Warner: so they're willing to tell me a lot of things they wouldn't tell someone as significant as john mccain. so, madam president, i think the democratic plan that we've enunciated is pretty good, much of

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John Warner: which we've enunciated for a long time has been picked up by the iraq study group. mr. durbin: would the senator yield for a question? i'd like to ask the senator from nevada the following question:

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John Warner: if i follow the inquiry of the senator from arizona, it leads me to this conclusion. let me add my voice in chorus to his service to our country and his courage. i share it, and i mean it sincerely

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John Warner: to the senator from arizona. but his argument goes something like this: if you are not loyal to the policies of the commander in chief, then you are not loyal to the troops.~ if you're not prepared to

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John Warner: say that you will stand behind the policy, the military policy of the president, whether you agree with it or not, then you do not respect the troops and don't have confidence in the troops. nothing

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John Warner: is further from the truth. i would ask the senator from nevada, does he think it is possible to disagree with the president's policies and still be loyal to the troops? is it possible to say the president

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John Warner: was wrong in not bringing more countries in as allies in this conflict before we inhave a vaided and still -- invaded and still be loyal to the troops? is it possible we didn't send enough soldiers when

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John Warner: we should have and still be loyal to the troops? is it possible to say disbanding the army of iraq was a bad decision and still be loyal to american troops? is it possible to say that the situation

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John Warner: is grave and deteriorating in iraq is evidence of a need for a new direction and still be loyal to the troops? i just don't buy the premise by the senator from arizona that if you question the policy

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John Warner: of the president, somehow you're disloyal to the soldiers. they are the ones following orders from the commander in chief. we have a special obligation to them, i think a loyalty to them far and

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John Warner: beyond any chief executive. and i'd ask the senator from nevada if he believes that you can be loyal to the troops and still disagree with the president. mr. reid: i think that's part of what is being

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Patty Murray: a patriotic member of this congress. mr. warner: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. warner: madam president, i was unfortunately engaged in the s. 407 on the most

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Speech By: Patty Murray