Home > Speeches > 2005 Speeches

Nobody Trusts the President's Judgment on Iraq
House of Representatives - June 29, 2005

Mr. Speaker, last night we watched a very sad event.

Watch this floor speech [Click here to get Windows Media Player]

The President of the United States came out here to try and convince the American people to support him yet again. The problem is that the President did not recognize while he was standing there that nobody trusts his judgment.

Nobody trusts the Vice President's judgment. The man who says we're in the last throws of the problems in Baghdad. Even Rumsfeld has come forward and said we're going to be there 12 years.

Now Mr. Speaker, when the President comes and tries to sell us another 12 years and says things are going well, it just doesn't work.

This was ill conceived, it was ill-prepared for, it has been poorly executed by the management, not by the troops on the ground. They've done the best they could. But they are there because the President of the United States wanted them there.

This is george bush's war. This is not a war on terrorism. This is a war of conquest by George Bush.