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Thursday, May 1, 2008
What do you want U.S. to accomplish in Iraq?
Five years ago today, President Bush stood aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
U.S. Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, spoke at the Center for American Progress Action Fund Thursday on the five-year anniversary of Bush declaring “mission accomplished.”
Murtha said, “1,827 days later, the U.S. occupation of Iraq continues, and our ‘mission’ remains undefined and open-ended.”
“Even today, five years later, this Administration refuses to provide us with reasonable answers to very reasonable questions. First, what are we trying to accomplish in Iraq? And second, what is the United States’ mission there?”
Tell us: What do you want the U.S. to accomplish in Iraq?
