Brian Jones: “Like all my colleagues, I was home during the August break, accepting opportunities to speak at civic clubs, at town…”

“Like all my colleagues, I was home during the August break, accepting opportunities to speak at civic clubs, at town forums, and I did speak to a couple of military retiree groups. Every time that I would make the statement that it is time to bring our troops home from Afghanistan--Mr. Speaker, I'm not an excellent speaker, I'm not even a good speaker, but I got applause, strong applause, from every one of those groups that I just named. They agree with me and many of my colleagues, one being on the floor today, Jim McGovern from Massachusetts, that it's time to bring an end to our involvement in Afghanistan. The amount of loss of lives is just astounding. And I have beside me a poster that depicts the pain of war. This lady and her little girl are accepting a folded flag off the coffin of her husband and the little girl's daddy. And the little girl is looking up like ``I don't know what's happening.'' The wife is crying. How many more families have to cry? How many children have to say, ``I don't know my daddy; I didn't know my daddy because I was so young when he died''? The President is asking for a jobs program. I think he's doing the right thing. Yet we're spending $10 billion a month in Afghanistan to prop up a corrupt leader. It makes no sense. It doesn't make any sense to the American people, and it makes no sense to many of us in the House, both Republican and Democrat.…”