Bill Delahunt: “I think what is rather ironic, of course, is in Afghanistan, our NATO ally Germany is playing a key and vital role.…”

“I think what is rather ironic, of course, is in Afghanistan, our NATO ally Germany is playing a key and vital role. Afghanistan militarily was truly a coalition of the willing, not a coalition of the coerced, the bribed, but a coalition of the willing. But I think it is important that we approach the reconstruction of both Afghanistan and Iraq on a multilateral basis. We cannot ask the American people to continue to bear the full burden. We have already made a comment in Iraq which practically guarantees a new hospital in every Iraqi city, 100 percent maternity coverage for Iraqi women that is going to be funded by the taxpayers of the United States. And what are we doing here in this Congress under this Republican leadership to Medicare? We are cutting it by $95 billion. That is not fair to the American taxpayer. It is not fair to the American people.”