For Immediate Release
Monday, March 24, 2008
McEntee on Iraq: “Time to End the Madness”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the 4,000th American Fatality in Iraq
Washington, D.C. —“Five years into this disastrous war, we are still squandering billions of dollars and destroying the lives of young men and women and their families who answered the call to serve our country. Our service members have done their job and it is time to bring them home. We need to stop throwing troops and resources into the quagmire of Iraq. Our priorities at home – securing quality health care for all Americans, rebuilding aging bridges, levees and roads, improving our schools, and revitalizing our struggling economy – are ignored while our country is bogged down in an unwinnable war. It is time to end the madness and set a new direction for our country.”
