mr. speaker , i thank the gentlewoman from new york ( ms. slaughter ) xz4003780 for yielding me time and for her leadership . 
mr. speaker , as the daughter of a veteran , i want to first express my profound respect for our brave men and women serving in iraq , but we are not helping these brave troops if we blindly sign yet another blank check for this unjust and unnecessary war in iraq . 
this $ 82 billion supplemental would bring the total war spending to over $ 300 billion . 
how can we sign off on another $ 82 billion check when the bush administration has failed to provide the proper accounting of where the taxpayer money is going ? 
how can we sign off on this check when our own government reported yesterday that another $ 100 million can not be accounted for ? 
this is on top of the $ 9 billion from last year that is still missing . 
how can we sign this check if the bush administration has offered no plan to bring our troops home ? 
furthermore , are we safer today than we were before this unnecessary war started ? 
iraq is now a breeding ground for terrorists . 
we are less safe as a result of this war . 
members know and i know . 
before the invasion of iraq , there was no connection between saddam hussein and osama bin laden . 
still , this administration would have us also believe that adding the unrelated anti-immigrant provisions to this supplemental bill would make us safer , but the fact is real id will do nothing to make us safe . 
this administration has much to account for . 
they are cutting section 8 for our seniors and our poor . 
they are cutting the budget for housing for people living with aids . 
they are cutting housing for the disabled . 
they are cutting medicaid . 
when you look at $ 13.5 billion over the next 5 years for our veterans , they are cutting that . 
they are making the least of these pay for this war . 
that is wrong . 
this is a whole new level of immorality that i have ever seen . 
this distortion of the facts with regard to iraq and the fact that they told us that weapons of mass destruction were there , we know that is not the case . 
we know that . 
you know that . 
yet another $ 82 billion to fund this war that has not made this country any safer . 
it has made us less safe . 
when you look at what is happening in our own country , when you look at health care , when you look at the people out there in the street that are suffering , why do they have to pay for this war ? 
i ask for a no vote . 
