House Proceeding on Feb 14th, 2007 :: 3:39:16 to 3:44:19
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Speech By: Walter B. Jones

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Walter B. Jones: this sectarian war, can he well have it without us. listen to what the enlisted men say. specialist don roberts, 22, of colorado now in his second tour in iraq told the associated press, quote,

3:39:16 to 3:39:34( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: what could more guys do? we cannot pick sides. it's like we have to watch them kill each other then ask questions. sergeant josh of canton, hoifer, also on his second tour said, quote, nothing

3:39:16 to 3:44:19( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Stevan Pearce

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Stevan Pearce: is going to help. it is a religious war and we are caught in the middle of it. f.p.c. zach clauser 19 of nork, pennsylvania, told the news service, quote, this isn't our war e. we are in the

3:39:48 to 3:40:11( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: middle. sergeant darnse dewalt, 22, said quote, they can keep sending more and more troops over here. until the people here start working with us it's not going to change. sergeant first class

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Stevan Pearce: herbert gill, 29, of tennessee, said, quote, sunnis and shi'ias have been fighting for thousands of years. after our raids melts insurgents away, two or three months later when we leave and say

3:40:26 to 3:40:45( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: it was a success, they'll come back. saddam hussein was an evil man, mr. speaker. but he had a total military budget only a little over .2% of ours. most of which he spent protecting himself and

3:40:45 to 3:41:04( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: his family and building castles. he was no threat to us at all. as the conservative columnist charlie reese has written several times, iraq did not threaten us with war. they did not attack

3:41:04 to 3:41:21( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: us. and were not even capable of attacking us. even before the war started fortune magazine had an article saying an american occupation of iraq would be, quote, prolonged and expensive and

3:41:21 to 3:41:39( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: would make u.s. soldiers sitting ducks for islamic terrorists. now we have had more than 3,000 americans killed. many thousands more wounded horribly. and if spent $400 billion and the pentagon

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Stevan Pearce: wantses $170 billion more. and as -- one previous speaker said with all the added medical and veterans costs, the ultimate costs of this war could reach $2 trillion. there is nothing fiscally

3:41:54 to 3:42:09( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: conservative about this war. most of what we have spent has been purely foreign aid in nature. rebuilding iraq's infrastructure, giving free medical care, training police, giving jobs to several

3:42:09 to 3:42:29( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: hundred thousand iraqis and hon and on. our constitution does not give us the authority to -- on and hon. our constitution does not give us the authority to run the country as we have

3:42:29 to 3:42:49( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: in reality been doing in iraq. with a national debt of almost $9 trillion we can't afford it. to me our misadventure in iraq is both unconstitutional and unaffordable. some have said it

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Stevan Pearce: was a mistake to start this war, but that now we are there, we have to "finish the job." we cannot cut and run. if you find out you are going down -- the wrong way down the interstate, you

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Stevan Pearce: do not keep going. you get off the next exit. we cannot keep all the promises to our own people on social security, veterans benefits, and others if we keep trying to run the whole world. as another

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Stevan Pearce: columnist wrote more than three years ago, americans, quote, will inevitably come to a point where they will see they have to have a government that provides services at home or one that speaks

3:43:38 to 3:44:00( Edit History Discussion )

Stevan Pearce: empire across the globe. we should help other countries during humanitarian crises and have trade and tourism and cultural and educational exchanges. the conservatives have traditionally

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Stevan Pearce: been the strongest opponents to interventionist foreign policies that create so much resentment for us around the world. we need to return to the more humble foreign policy president bush advocated

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when he campaigned in 2000. finally, mr. speaker, we need to tell all these defense contractors that the time for this iraqi gravy train with their obscene profits is over. it is certainly