Political Quotes

“the Members may not have heard all this debate, but we have heard that we deployed into Kosovo. We have been told that we are in Kosovo. We have talked about we are withdrawing from Kosovo. The simple truth is that none of us went into Kosovo. None of us are in Kosovo. None of us will come out of Kosovo. It is the men and women of our military. Yesterday I talked to four of them. I talked to a Major who has been deployed five times in the last 10 years. Ten years ago he had two people directly under him. Today they are his supervisors. I talked to a young man at the University of Alabama who deployed in May, came back in February, lost a year and a half of school. That is what we are talking about. We are talking about the men and women of our military. It is a simple question: Do we make our European allies shoulder the burden, or do we make our own troops continue to shoulder the European burden?”