John F. Kerry: “Not only will our environment be threatened by this neglect, but two other effects that have been mentioned here will…”

Time and again, this administration has tried to leave the American people with the impression that Iraq has well over 100,000 fully trained, fully competent military police and personnel. And that is simply not true.

I will continue to oppose every bad policy, to question every baseless assertion, and to advocate for a wiser course that will make our country more secure.

This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen to each of you.

I apologize very much for being late. I expected to be on time, but I was meeting with some of the families, military families of kids who were in Iraq