John Mica: “To get aid to Colombia, which is now where there is an incredible production of heroin. The heroin, when we went down…”

“To get aid to Colombia, which is now where there is an incredible production of heroin. The heroin, when we went down there, they told us they are producing 10,000 hectares which will make heroin as cheap on the streets of the United States, and it is getting there very quickly, and a much stronger, much more potent heroin, because of our policy. We failed to provide the equipment. The Congress directed the equipment, the funds, that spare parts be given down there to fight this war on drugs, and in the meantime this administration has denied those requests. Even of late when they have decertified Colombia with a waiver, the goods and the materiel and the resources to fight that war on drugs still have not reached Colombia, and Colombian military are being slaughtered. The national police chief Seranno has been here and begged us for assistance, and we still ignore it, and we have an incredible amount of drugs, as the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) just described, coming in now, not only transiting, but they are now mass producers of heroin. They are even into the cocaine business, because this administration has made it profitable for them to succeed. I can tell my colleagues, there is nothing more effective as far as use of taxpayer dollars. Out of $16 billion we are spending this money on treatment and programs that do not work. We talk about losing a Vietnam War.…”