RI Sen: Matt Brown Statement on Chafee’s failure to have an answer for ...

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MEDIA RELEASE
Thursday, August 18, 2005

Statement on Chafee’s failure to have an answer for our troops serving in Iraq

CRANSTON – Rhode Island Secretary of State and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Matt Brown today called out Senator Lincoln Chafee for not having an answer for whether he supports a timeline for bringing American troops home to their families. Brown made the following statement:

“It is unacceptable for Senator Chafee’s office to respond I don’t know when asked whether the Senator supports a timeline for bringing our troops home.

“President Bush is the Commander-in-Chief. He needs to set a timetable and have a plan to start withdrawing American troops from Iraq in six months. Senator Chafee needs to have an answer for our troops and hold President Bush accountable for not having a plan to start the withdrawal.”

Brown called on President Bush yesterday to start withdrawing American troops in Iraq in six months. When asked by the New York Times about Senator Chafee’s position on when we could start bringing American troops home, Chafee spokesman Stephen Hourahan said “he did not know.”

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