Mark Souder: “You have documentation that he did not participate, not that he participated and took somebody down. I want to…”

“You have documentation that he did not participate, not that he participated and took somebody down. I want to illustrate what is at stake here. We have Huey helicopters that we would not allow Americans to ride in. Our only line of defense now in Colombia to keep the cocaine and heroin from our streets are these helicopters that are grounded. I personally visited in the hospital in Colombia some of the people in some of these Huey helicopters that have crashed. It is a tragedy that we are putting these old junkers out right now that will not work and we are trying to say that this is the only way we are going to protect our kids and families in America? If we do not make sure that the National Police have these helicopters and the ability to get up to the higher elevations with the Black Hawks and the Black Hawks can carry larger loads of people to protect the people who are trying to eradicate the drugs, let me assure you, if we do not do this, my son and daughter and your sons and daughters are going to be down there in Colombia trying to fight this war directly. We have people out there, Colonel Gallego has a multimillion-dollar price on his head and his family is in hiding. General Serrano has even more millions of dollars' price on his head. If they are with the drug dealers, why are they trying to kill them? Why have they killed the equivalent of 30,000 American police officers in the last few years trying to fight this? These people are dying.…”