Claire McCaskill actually said...

"This really looks like nation-building in every essence of the word, and I think there is more nation-building here than there really is COIN."

"I have become increasingly skeptical about the infrastructure projects that we are spending money on."

"I believe with every intellectual capacity I have that this is not going to end up well on these infrastructure projects."

"I don't want anyone to misinterpret my willingness to pull some of this money out and put it in the highway trust fund in this country as not supporting what our military is trying to do there."