Political Quotes

“Just a point that I'd like to make on something that you said earlier, if you could comment on that. We talk about money costs, but think of the amount of money that this Congress has had to appropriate for veterans benefits as a result of the staggering injuries, the staggering effects that this war has had on our veterans and on our military personnel, and I just think that that's something that I don't think that this administration thought about when they planned out Iraq. They didn't think about the number of wounded because, while our medical teams get better and better, we save many more lives, but obviously many, many more people receive injuries that they will suffer from the rest of their lives. And it's our duty and our responsibility as a Nation to take care of those individuals, and the emotional costs to their family and obviously financial cost to this country of taking care of them is great. And I just wanted to add that because that's something else that I don't think anyone thought about before we went into Iraq.”