Strategy Shift in Iraq Shows Significant Progress in War on Terror

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  August 20th at 02:56 PM  | 

Due to the great progress made by our brave men and women on the front lines, President Obama has announced the US mission in Iraq will shift from a combat role to an advisory and assistance mission for the Iraqi government and its security forces beginning August 31, 2010 and continuing for the next 17 months. As many of you recall, the situation in Iraq | Read More »

A Disconnected Congress

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  March 11th at 10:45 AM  | 

The House of Representatives spent much of yesterday discussing H.ConRes. 248, the Afghanistan War Powers Resolution, sponsored by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).  The resolution would have required the president to remove all U.S. troops in Afghanistan within 30 days of the resolution being signed into law unless the president felt it would not be safe to do so.  In that case, the president would then | Read More »