Bill Delahunt: “What do you think an American mother feels as she sees this administration embroil us, embroil us, in wars, sectarian…”

“What do you think an American mother feels as she sees this administration embroil us, embroil us, in wars, sectarian strife all over the world? Does she become concerned that at some point in time her child will be compelled to serve in the military? I found it fascinating reading some articles in the Weekly Standard, which is, if you will, the gospel of the neoconservative movement, suggesting now is the time to bomb or strike Iran. Just another war. Just another war. And, of course, the original frontier in terms of the war on terrorism, Madam Speaker, was Afghanistan. And you know what is happening in Afghanistan? The Taliban is back, the group that gave safe haven to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, because of the distraction that was foisted on the American people by this administration with the complicity of this Congress and putting us into the quagmire of Iraq.”