Political Quotes

“a few weeks ago, this Congress approved an additional $82 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is on top of the other $220 billion that we had appropriated, raising the total cost of this war to more than $300 billion. If that was not enough, this week we are about to approve another $45 billion as a bridge loan for the operations in Iraq, bringing the cost up to $350 billion. What have we gotten ourselves and what have we accomplished in the last 2 plus years and after nearly now $350 billion of American taxpayer money? We defeated Saddam Hussein's regime, but today we find ourselves mired in an endless occupation with the inability to find a way out of our occupation of Iraq. In fact, the generals there say we are years off from ever being able to extricate ourselves from Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom was a war of choice. As President Kennedy once said, ``To govern is to choose.'' One can only hope that the war in Iraq was the right choice. Every President in the middle of a war has thought and laid out a vision of America after that war, how to see of all the sacrifices that America made, how the benefits of the war would come home. President Lincoln thought of the land grant colleges and the transcontinental railroad system in the midst of a civil war. He saw a way of building America when it became clear we were going to win that war.…”