President's Policy Is More Of The Same
The President's war in Iraq has dangerously overstretched our military, left America less protected against terrorism, and more vulnerable as other global threats emerge -- all at the cost of nearly $1 trillion to the taxpayers. In his testimony before Congress this week, even General David Petraeus could not explain how the Iraq war has made us safer.
Given these facts, the President owes the American people honest answers to the following questions:
How can he ask our brave men and women in uniform to risk their lives fighting in a civil war when the Iraqi government has failed to implement the reforms needed for national reconciliation to end the sectarian violence?How will maintaining a force of at least 130,000 Americans in Iraq strengthen our military, and do we have sufficient troops to meet other military threats around the world?
How does he propose to pay for the additional $700 billion or more that his Iraq plan will cost over the next five years?
The American people long ago lost faith in the President's leadership of the war in Iraq because his rhetoric has never matched the reality on the ground. The choice is between a Democratic plan for responsible redeployment and the President's plan for an endless war in Iraq.