March 19, 2008
On Fifth Anniversary of Iraq War, Congressional Candidate Tracey Brooks Calls on
President Bush To Bring Our Troops Home
Tracey Brooks, Congressional candidate in the Capital
Region’s 21st District, called on President Bush to finally end the
war in Iraq
and bring our troops home.
“President Bush, our troops have done their job and now it’s
time to bring them home,” said Brooks. “We all know that it doesn't make sense
to continue spending billions of dollars abroad on a mission we were told was
accomplished several years ago when we have so many important issues to address
here at home.”
Brooks recalled President Bush’s premature declaration of
‘Mission Accomplished’ back in May of 2003: “President Bush said the mission
was accomplished but five years, $500 billion and 4000 American lives later, he
still doesn’t have an exit strategy or a winning strategy.”
While the U.S.
military is expected to withdraw about 20,000 troops by July, Bush plans
on leaving about 140,000 troops in Iraq.
“This war has gone on long enough,” said Brooks. “We need to
bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq and give them all the
resources they need to rejoin our workforce, rejoin our communities and, most
importantly, rejoin their families.”
As a lifelong resident of the Albany area and the Capital Region Director
for Senator Hillary Clinton for the last three years, Brooks enters the race
with working knowledge of the problems facing the region and experience in
finding solutions to them.
“We need to readjust our priorities. The right priority is
to take the billions of dollars being spent on Iraq and put that money towards solving
our own problems right here at home,” said Brooks. “President Bush has failed
to provide a troop withdrawal timetable and Sen. McCain is talking about a
hundred more years of war. That’s not
what people in the Capital Region are saying.”
Brooks concluded: “The people of the 21st
Congressional District want us to end the war in Iraq, and then start focusing on stimulating
our local economy and passing meaningful legislation that will bring more jobs,
broader health care coverage and a better quality of life for everyone.”-30-
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