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Pelosi Statement on Maliki's Call for a Timetable on U.S. Troops Withdrawing From Iraq
WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's call for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces fromIraq:
"President Bush refuses to heed the clear warnings of our military leaders about the harmful impact the war inIraq is having on the readiness of our armed forces and our country's ability to fight the real war on terrorism inAfghanistan and around the world.
"A bipartisan majority in Congress -- representing the wishes of the American people -- supports a timetable for redeployment as an essential step in ending theIraq war, refocusing on the real war on terrorism, rebuilding our military and reinvesting in job creation and other critical priorities here at home. The President has refused to even consider taking steps toward ending a war that has now cost more than 4,100 American lives, seriously wounded tens of thousands of our troops, and cost taxpayers trillions of dollars.
"President Bush refuses to listen to Congress or the American people, but he cannot support Iraqi political reconciliation and security and ignore Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's call for a timetable for the withdrawal."
SOURCE Office of the Speaker of the House
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