CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
SENATE
Oct. 11, 2004
U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ
Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, this evening on the campus of Michigan State University in Lansing I will be speaking on U.S. policy in Iraq.
My conclusion is that just as it took a new administration to extract the United States from Vietnam, it will take a new administration to extract us from Iraq in a way which leaves that country stable and democratic. We cannot leave Iraq as we did Vietnam.
Nor can we just continue a western occupation of a Muslim nation that is the target and magnet for violence and terror, and that has become more destabilizing than stabilizing. We must change course in Iraq-or else Iraq's future is not likely to be stability and democracy, and the legacy to the world of the Iraq war is likely to be greater turmoil and terror.
I ask unanimous consent that the remarks I will be making this evening be included in full at this point in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows: