Brian Higgins actually said...

"The fact of the matter is when the surge was undertaken, it was designed to tamp down violence to give some breathing room for the Iraqis, Sunni, Shia, the Kurds to do political reconciliation."

"Since 2003, we have spent $8 billion training the Iraqi police, approximately $1 billion a year."

"We have spent $63 billion in reconstructing Iraq. The past performance doesn't inspire great confidence."

"I commend my colleague, Jeff Duncan, for his bipartisan resolution to include as an area of focus the Western Hemisphere in our Nation's counterterrorism efforts."