Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett Schiffis the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district. He has served in Congress since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Schiff represented the 27th and 29th Districts between 2003 and 2013, which included the areas of Alhambra, Altadena, San Gabriel, Burbank, Glendale, South Pasadena, Temple City, Monterey Park and Pasadena. In 2010, his district was re-districted to include new areas including Hollywood, Echo Park, Hollywood Hills, La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Los Feliz, Silver...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 June 1960
CountryUnited States of America
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether.
We wonder how this could happen in the United States of America,
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
We are a more secure America when we rally the world to our side in a great cause.
We believe there's every capability of dealing with this problem in China if the resources are devoted to it, if the Chinese move more towards using the criminal laws aggressively,
But a nuclear incident of some kind, on our own soil or against our troops in the field, would fundamentally change America.
People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,
Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.