Jay Inslee: Washington's 1st Congressional District
Issues
Iraq
Inslee statement on Iraq Study Group Report
6 December 2006
U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, who voted against the Iraq war in 2002 and passed an amendment in the House to increase funding for training Iraqi troops in 2005, made the following statement on the report released by the Iraq Study Group.
"It is refreshing to see a report on Iraq that is not through rose-colored glasses, but this is not enough. We must declare in clear and certain terms that we're going to start bringing our sons and daughters home now. Otherwise, Shiites and Sunnis won't have the incentive necessary to forge political compromises that are necessary to form a real government.
"It's time for our troops to stop fighting while the Shiites and Sunnis squabble over oil revenue. If the factions don't reach a deal on oil, we could be in Iraq for 50 years and our effort wouldn't ultimately work."