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Republican Members Call Senate Democrat Amendment on Rumsfeld "Political Grandstanding"

Date: Sept. 6, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security


Republican Members Call Senate Democrat Amendment on Rumsfeld "Political Grandstanding"

Washington, Sep 6 -

Republican Members of Congress today issued the following statements in response to Senate Democrats' attempts to introduce a resolution forcing a vote of no confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration's Iraq policies:

"We are in the midst of a worldwide war against terrorism. Attacks on the leadership of this administration's defense strategy are little more than grandstanding by opposition opportunists. I want to thank Secretary Rumsfeld for his leadership. He has led the Department of Defense during two wars, wars that resulted in the liberation of 25 million people in Afghanistan and 25 million people in Iraq. Now is not the time to change the leadership. Retreat is not the answer and no is not a policy."

- Congressman Henry Brown (R-SC)

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