Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
01/09/2008
Pelosi on One-Year Anniversary of President Bush’s Surge Policy in Iraq
Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the
following statement today ahead of the one-year anniversary of the President’s
address to the nation to announce his plans to increase the number of U.S.
troops in Iraq:
“One year ago, the President announced his plan to send
thousands of additional
“Despite repeated calls from the vast majority of the
American people, the President continues on a course for a 10-year, $2 trillion
war in
“The New Direction Congress remains ready to work with President Bush to find a responsible end to this war before the end of his presidency.”