Brian Jones: “I'm back on the floor again to talk about bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. I had the privilege and the honor…”

“I'm back on the floor again to talk about bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. I had the privilege and the honor to be at Walter Reed in Bethesda on Tuesday, and I talked to so many of our young men and women who have lost legs and other parts of their body and just continue to wonder why in the world the leadership of the House does not join together and call on Mr. Obama to bring our troops home before 2014-2015. Mr. Speaker, I'm holding up right now from The Wall Street Journal a rather lengthy article that says, ``Afghan Opium Output Surges.'' That is real encouraging; our young men and women walking the roads of Afghanistan, getting their legs blown off, and yet the drugs in Afghanistan are surging. That's great news, I guess, for the dealers. Mr. Speaker, in addition to that, on October 5 in a poll, it says one in three vets see Iraq-Afghanistan wars as a waste. And I read: ``A new opinion survey says one in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believe the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not worth fighting. Most of the vets polled by the Pew Research Center also think that after 10 years of combat, America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems.'' I'm pleased to see Ms. Woolsey from California on the floor because she has joined many of us in the Republican Party and her Democratic Party in continuing to grow the opposition to staying in Afghanistan until 2014-2015.…”