“A ocupação de Iraq começou cinco anos há de hoje, mas poucas realizam que o março à guerra começou dez anos há de Bill Clinton inferior, quando a mudança do regime se transformou ESTADOS UNIDOS oficiais. política. Em 1998, eu fiz exame ao assoalho da casa no protesto do ato Iraqi do Liberation para advertir aquele, `eu v esta legislação como essencialmente sendo uma declaração da guerra virtual. Está dando ao presidente poders tremendos perseguir esforços da guerra de encontro a uma nação sovereign.' Meus avisos foram demitidos pela maior parte naquele tempo, mas cinco anos mais tarde, nós éramos bombardeio Iraq.

“Após cinco anos da ocupação, realiza-se hoje uma estadia boa para a reflexão. 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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