Darcy will hold the Bush Administration accountable on Iraq

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Darcy will hold the Bush Administration accountable on Iraq

When my brother was sent to Iraq with the 101st Airborne, I shared the pride and fears of many military families. He and I talk regularly about the soldiers’ view of the facts on the ground – and about what Congress could do to make things better.

While I believe the Bush Administration misled the American people about the intelligence and the motivation for the war, I firmly believe we need to focus on a forward-looking policy that secures Iraq without an indefinite commitment of our troops and their families.

Let me be clear: our troops have done everything we have asked of them, and they have done it with courage, honor, and a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the greater good. They deserve our admiration and respect.

We asked them to topple a brutal dictatorship, and they did it faster than anyone believed possible.

We asked them to make sure there were no weapons of mass destruction, and they did that.

We asked them to maintain order while the Iraqis formed an interim government and negotiated a constitution, and they did that.

We asked them to hold back an increasingly violent insurgency while Iraqis held another election, and they did that.

And now, they are there waiting while the politicians in Washington D.C. fail to figure out what’s next and how we give Iraq back to the Iraqis and bring our brave soldiers home. We owe it to them to have clear benchmarks to measure success. We owe it to them to ask the tough questions and hold this administration accountable.