Sununu Misses Last Chance In 2007 To Withdraw Troops

For Immediate ReleaseContact: Bill Lofy
December 19, 2007(603)573-5067

Senator John E. Sununu last night voted for the eighth time this year to block a change in course in Iraq. Sununu voted against an amendment offered by Senator Carl Levin that would express the sense of the Congress that the United States should implement a change of mission in Iraq by the end of 2008. He went on to vote for an amendment offered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell which gives President Bush yet another blank check to continue the war.

"Another day, another vote against New Hampshire," said Stop Sununu campaign director Bill Lofy. "Senator Sununu just doesn't get it. The people of New Hampshire have had enough of President Bush's failed policy in Iraq. They know it's time for a change; Senator Sununu wants more of the same."

This is the eighth time this year that Senator Sununu has voted against changing direction in Iraq. For years, Sununu has been a steadfast supporter of the President's failed Iraq policy, and repeatedly defended the Bush administration against charges that the president misled the American public when making the case for the war in Iraq, and he voted against investigating pre-war intelligence.

"With this vote, Senator Sununu had a chance to change direction in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home," Lofy concluded. "But like he did the previous seven times he had this opportunity this year, Senator Sununu made clear where his loyalties lie: with the president, his party, and the failed approach to the war in Iraq that he has so steadfastly supported since arriving in Washington five years ago."