Peter DeFazio Quotes

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• Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their…
• The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
• The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400…
• The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
• There is no free market in oil.
• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better…
• The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
• To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat…
• The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
• But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the…
• Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not…
• In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
• In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over…
• In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the…
• A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule,…
• It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
• Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.
• About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it…
• Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

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