A one-time supporter of the Iraq war, Congressman Engel has since realized, "Young American service personnel cannot solve the problem of Iraq."
The Bronx representative lent support to the "Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act" during a speech delivered on Thursday, July 12.
"It’s time to start bringing our troops home," Engel said, calling for the Secretary of Defense to start withdrawing American troops from Iraq 120 days after the bill becomes law.
The congressman also criticized the Bush administration’s control of the war, from "the lack of planning to insufficient number of troops, to incompetent management of reconstruction projects, to the use of torture in military prisons."
Iraq is no longer a military problem, but a political crisis, Engel said. In this, the fifth year of the war, the nation has spent over half a trillion dollars and lost 3,600 American lives, he said, adding that the "evidence that our soldiers are involved in an Iraqi civil war is mounting and a solution seems ever further from our grasp."
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