Kendrick Meek: “And they are going back and training. I am going to yield to you, Mr. Delahunt, but I know it is hard because this stuff…”

“And they are going back and training. I am going to yield to you, Mr. Delahunt, but I know it is hard because this stuff is so much in the face of the American people, but we want to make sure that we break it down. But let me just make one more point, please. Let me just try to get this out and then I will happily yield, Mr. Delahunt. The fact that we have two wars going on, and the Democratic leader of the Armed Services Committee that Mr. Ryan and I serve on, Mr. Ike Skelton, he came to the floor, and I have his statement right here. It was a 5-minute speech he gave last week, and I heard him give this speech last week on the two wars. Right here on this floor, Mr. Delahunt, we were standing right over there, I said, Mr. Skelton, can I have a copy of what you shared with the American people and the Members of this House? He gave it to me. These are the three pages right here. Talks about the two wars, Madam Speaker. It talks about a war on terrorism, which we had Osama bin Laden pinned down, and then we went into this other war in Iraq that took troops away from Afghanistan, that stretched U.S. forces to the point to where they are now. It is kind of hard to keep up with the whole recruiting issue. We are almost giving away a Chevy truck for people to join the military right now. And it is very unfortunate because the U.S. taxpayers are being drained.…”