"정권 변화가 관리 미국에 어울릴 때 이라크의 점령은 전에 오늘 5 년 시작되었다, 그러나 전쟁에 행진이 전에 아래 빌 클린턴 10 년 시작되었다는 것을 몇몇은 깨닫는다. 정책. 1998년, 나는 이라크 해방 행위의 항의에 있는 집 지면에 저것을 가지고 가 의 `에서 경고하기 위하여 나는 보아 근본적으로 사실상 전쟁의 선언이로 이 입법을. 그것은 주고 있다 대통령에게 군주 국가에 대하여 전쟁 노력을 추구하는 거창한 힘을.' 나의 경고는 크게 당시에 일축되었다, 그러나 나중에 5 년, 우리는 폭격 이라크이었다.

"5 년의 점령 후에, 반영을 위해 방탕한 것 오늘 이다. The cost to America has been great: 4,000 soldiers are dead, 30,000 have been severely wounded, and over 100,000 have applied for disability. In addition, the war has put a tremendous strain on our economy. As we spiral toward recession and experience an assault on our dollar, we spend $12 billion per month financing our Iraqi operations. The war has cost us nearly $1 trillion dollars, or over $3,300 per American man, woman, and child.

“In a recent presidential debate, I was asked whether the war was ‘worth it.’ I said, and still say, ‘absolutely not.’ In addition to the tremendous costs to America, the war has been helpful to our enemies. The war has strengthened Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and Iran. And yet the other presidential candidates want to keep troops there for at least five more years. One even says we should keep American troops in Iraq for 100 years.

“As I have repeatedly said when discussing United States policy in Iraq, when you find yourself going the wrong way down a one-way street, you need to look for the nearest off-ramp. The only solution to the mess in Iraq is to promptly bring our troops home. Our bad policy spans at least ten years and two presidents and has had severe costs in lives and economic consequences. Continuing down the same road will solve nothing and compound our already substantial problems.”

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