We Have Done Enough To Help Iraq

Well, I was one of the six Republicans that voted against the war initially so I’ve been opposed to this right from the start and I still am. That’s where I’m coming from. The President has already said that he’s not going to pay any attention to it and it’s a non-binding resolution. I think the American people want the Congress to debate and discuss this issue so that’s what we’ll do.

I hope that the President will reach a point where he decides to start bringing these troops home. He originally said that we weren’t going to stay there forever. So, what I think he should do is announce to the world that no country has ever done as much for any other nation as the U.S. has for Iraq. We’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars over there and the time has come that the Iraqis are going to have to settle these things themselves. I don’t see and never have seen how we can achieve victory in a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis. So where we go from here is going to depend very little on what I say. It’s going to depend almost entirely on the President. I think foreign policy has to be left primarily to the President but, by the same token, it doesn’t mean that the Congress has to remain silent. So we’re going express our opinions.