John Rice Carter: “I happen to be blessed to have Fort Hood, Texas, in my district, which is the only division 2 post in America. It is the…”

“I happen to be blessed to have Fort Hood, Texas, in my district, which is the only division 2 post in America. It is the largest gathering of military forces on Earth, and we have experienced already, since I have been in Congress, a delay on getting a supplemental to the post. Now, I think the American people need to know, and I would hope my colleagues in Congress would know, that today, as we speak, there are between 4- and 5,000 American soldiers going door-to-door in Baghdad and looking for three soldiers. Why is that? Why that concentration of effort? Because the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps and every one of our services, they value every human life that they have. They care about their soldiers, and they are showing it by 24/7 putting their lives on the line looking for these guys, because they know what happens to these prisoners, what has happened in the past, people who were castrated and skinned alive, and their throats cut, and left on the side of the road dead with bombs strapped to their bodies. So they care about those soldiers. This issue goes right down to what happens at home, when the supplemental money that provides the bullets, ammunition, transportation, vehicles for our soldiers in harm's way, when this Congress fails to meet its obligation to those brave men and women.”