Dana Rohrabacher: “Actually, it is worse than what you are presenting. The fact is that we had hundreds of thousands of Americans in the…”

“Actually, it is worse than what you are presenting. The fact is that we had hundreds of thousands of Americans in the desert in a very vulnerable situation. They were in a hostile environment, even if there were no enemy troops out to kill them; and what happened, what you are talking about, the vast majority of the members of the Democratic Party who were here in this body decided and voted that they should not be permitted to conduct offensive military operations. What, in essence, that vote was all about was saying our troops, vulnerable in the middle of a hostile desert, facing a well-armed foe would not be able to conduct offensive operations but would have to sit there and fry in the desert and take hits, but were not permitted to take offensive action. This is Vietnam times 10, if they would have succeeded. Luckily a number, Democrats crossed over to join almost every Republican.”