Brian Jones: “Today the House Budget Committee will reveal the budget for fiscal year 2016. That budget will contain more money for…”

“Today the House Budget Committee will reveal the budget for fiscal year 2016. That budget will contain more money for Afghanistan, which is why I am speaking on the floor today. Afghanistan is an absolute waste of taxpayer money. It is a true graveyard of empires. Mr. Speaker, just 2 years ago, I was speaking on the floor about a New York Times article titled, ``Karzai Says He Was Assured CIA Would Continue Delivering Bags of Cash.'' I will quote from that article again today: ``The CIA money, Mr. Karzai told reporters, was `an easy source of petty cash,' and some of it was used to pay off members of the political elite and a group dominated by warlords.'' This past Sunday, an article was published in a Raleigh, North Carolina, paper titled, ``CIA Cash Helped to Refill Al Qaeda Coffers.'' According to the article: ``The CIA contribution to al Qaeda's bottom line was just another in a long list of examples of how the United States, largely because of poor oversight and loose financial controls, has sometimes inadvertently financed the very militants'' who have been killing American soldiers. Finally, the article stated: ``The cash flow has slowed since a new Afghan president, Mr.…”