House Reaction To Bush’s Iraq Veto
May 2, 2007, 9:41pm
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo.: “The message we send to the world matters. The message we send to our troop matters. This bill needs to be as clean as possible; it needs to be straightforward.”
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio: Terrorists have “made Iraq the central front in their war with us. And if we walk out of Iraq, if we don’t give this plan a chance to succeed, we encourage the terrorists. … They’ll be able to recruit new people all over the world. They’ll haven a safe have in Iraq itself. We will destablize the entire Middle East, including the very existence of Israel. And who doesn’t believe that if we don’t deal with the terrorists in Iraq that we won’t be dealing with them on the streets of America?”
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas: “The president can veto our plan for a safe, orderly, phased redeployment from Iraq, but he cannot veto reality. Our troops are coming home. It’s just a matter of how much blood and money will be spent before they do.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: “The Congress will not support an open-ended commitment … to a war without end. The president wants a blank check; the Congress will not give it to him. … We are substituting the judgment of this Congress for [the president’s] failed judgment.”
Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn.: “He called [the bill] a prescription for chaos and confusion. I ask: How is that different from what we have now?”
Plus the conservative Heritage Foundation answers the question, “Are we in a long war?”
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