Brian Jones: “Mr. McGovern, thank you very much. I want to pick up on a few things you said just a few minutes ago. Iraq is in total…”

“Mr. McGovern, thank you very much. I want to pick up on a few things you said just a few minutes ago. Iraq is in total chaos. It is kind of ironic. In 1983--I found a photograph of Donald Rumsfeld who was a special envoy sent by President Reagan to thank Hussein for what he had done to try to defend Iraq against the Iranians. That brings me to where we are today and why this resolution that you have sponsored is so important. I have the former Commandant of the Marine Corps who, for the last 6 years, has been my adviser on Afghanistan, simply because I don't have the military background, and he is a very dear friend of mine. I emailed him a week ago and asked him: What do you think about all of these advisers going to Iraq, something you were just talking about? He emailed me back and he said: We should not put boots on the ground. He further stated: It is a Middle East issue that needs a Middle East solution, not more troops. That is why, again, your resolution, and our resolution needs to be debated. A couple of other points, very quickly--after I found out that I had been misled with the first war in Iraq, I contacted Lieutenant General Greg Newbold because he wrote an article for Time magazine. I want to read just a little bit of it very quickly.…”