James Inhofe actually said...

"It will not involve American combat troops fighting on the soil. American forces will not have a combat mission."

"If Western countries act in Iraq and Syria without visible participation and leadership of Arab nations, it will play into the propaganda pitch of the violent extremists that we are interested in domi..."

"But, you mentioned the Chiefs, and Odierno and the other Chiefs have come and testified in this room before us that, even before these things erupted, it was not adequate."

"Now we face an extremist organization that is larger, more brutal, better networked, and better funded than al Qaeda ever was."