KENNEDY SAYS NEW IRAQ REPORT UNDERSCORES THE ESCALATION IS WRONGHEADED

Report from the Pentagon Describes the Situation in Iraq as a Civil War

March 15, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington, DC: Today, in response to a new report from the Pentagon that describes the situation in Iraq as a civil war, Senator Kennedy issued the following statement. Senator Kennedy authored the legislation that required the Administration to issue this quarterly report.


“This report underscores how wrongheaded and senseless it is to escalate the war in Iraq. Rather than requiring them to police Iraq's civil war, the President should finally acknowledge that it is indeed a civil war and begin to take our troops out of harm's way. I urge my colleagues to take this report into account when deciding how to vote on the pending Iraq legislation.”

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