Statement from Rahm Emanuel this morning explaining why he's voting for the House's anti-escalation resolution:

Mr. Speaker, three years ago, I asked permission to establish a temporary memorial to the fallen in Iraq in Statuary Hall. The Leadership at that time refused, so I began posting the pictures of the young soldiers we've lost outside my office.

I've watched as that grim line of photos has grown past my doorway to fill the corridor. More than three thousand dead. More than twenty thousand wounded.

When I walk by those photos, I see the purpose, I see the pride and I see the promise in their young faces.

They were sons and daughters. Husbands and wives. Mothers and fathers who will never see their kids grow up.

I ask you, how long must this grim line of photographs grow before we acknowledge that this policy is not working?

How many corridors must these memorials fill before we say, 'not on my watch?'

How many more lives must we lose? How many more hearts must be broken?

It is time for this Congress to tell President Bush that his assurances are not enough.

This escalation does not mean stability in Iraq.

It will mean more loss and more photographs in the corridor.

I urge you to vote yes on this resolution.

The vote is today. We'll keep you posted on who backs it and who doesn't.