John Campbell: “A big problem, big issues, and this resolution doesn't address them. What does it do? It basically says that the…”

“A big problem, big issues, and this resolution doesn't address them. What does it do? It basically says that the military leaders have a suggestion that we have reinforcements that they believe may improve the situation, help us get a victory in Iraq. Now, they can't guarantee that. The President can't guarantee it. Nobody can guarantee it. But what does this say? It says we are not going to do that. Okay, fine. But what are you going to do instead? This resolution, by rejecting the only plan on the table, basically is saying stay the course, keep the status quo. I don't think the status quo has been working. I think we know we have to make some changes in strategy and whatever. We have to make something work. But this basically says we will take the only plan that is out there and reject it. We won't do it. So my question would be what do you do instead? What do you do to ensure that we don't have a genocide in Iraq on the scale of what is going on in Darfur? If you don't want to do this plan, what do you do to ensure that terrorism does not grow and flourish in Iraq and that then they come to attack us on our soil again, which they haven't done for 5 years? What do you do to protect our troops? I think these are a lot of questions that we have, Mr. Hoekstra, which is why just saying no to the only plan that is on the table won't do it.”