Political Quotes

“I want to talk more broadly about the war on terror and say it is with pleasure that we see the President's policy of bringing back troops home when they complete their mission successfully. Return on success is working. Marines are coming home after having pacified Al Anbar Province and turned the responsibility for maintaining security over to the Iraqi security forces. I know about that personally and it is working. The marines are coming home. We know they are coming home because there was a story this morning on television about how marines were held up for about 2 hours by the TSA at one of the places they landed in the United States. They refused to allow the marines to go into the terminal because I guess they provided some kind of threat. In any event, the marines are now coming back to face additional challenges--not just the challenges of the TSA that we all undergo, but, regrettably, too many of them have mental health problems, TBI and PTSD, and in the Defense authorization bill we have passed provisions to assist the wounded warriors coming home. But they have been successful, and return on success means al-Qaida is no longer able to exercise control over Al Anbar.”