Walter B. Jones: “The perception that we go back to the people who are lobbying us to raise money is where the public really loses trust.”

I never will forget Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, sitting where you are telling this committee that he will account for every dollar of the taxpayer.

Mr. President, I agree with those remarks and so does the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps, my friend and unofficial adviser, General Chuck Krulak. As he said in a recent email to me, no one has ever conquered Afghanistan, and many have…

Unfortunately we have to lose my son in this manner. Had this bill been in place I think it would protect young men as they were jogging down the street.

I want to talk about the graveyard of empires. I think that is what they say about Afghanistan and the history of Afghanistan.