Austin Scott: “let me just very briefly outline exactly what we are after in this bill. First of all, this is a responsible effort for…”

“let me just very briefly outline exactly what we are after in this bill. First of all, this is a responsible effort for redeployment so that we can refocus and fight the war on terror. The situation in Iraq is a civil war compounded by civil wars that have been going on ever since Abraham, Hagar, Sarah, Isaac, Ishmael, Esau, Mohammed and his son-in-law, which has broken into the Shi'as and the Sunnis; hundreds of thousands of years, folks. None of the people from Iraq came to this country and asked, please come over and pump in $500 billion, 3,600 of the lives of your precious sons and daughters to make a democracy for us. That was a decision that was made counter to the authorization in the first place. It was a go against weapons of mass destruction. It is responsible. It is focused. We need to do it, and I urge passage of this bill.”