Political Quotes

“Thank you. So let's have an overview of where we are at here. Everything my colleagues on the Democratic side said about helping Ukraine makes perfect sense to me. I think we need to help Ukraine. I thought it was a really bad idea to get out of Iraq in 2011, and I issued a statement about our withdrawal in 2011. I said: I respectfully disagree with President Obama. I feel all we have worked for, fought for, sacrificed for is very much in jeopardy by today's announcement. I hope I am wrong and the President is right, but I fear this decision has set in motion events that will come back to haunt our country. The ISIS was not the JV team. A lot of people were slaughtered throughout the planet because of that ill-advised decision. So we got out of Afghanistan. President Biden chose to do that. I have a statement here I will put in the record. I was very clear that if we get out of Afghanistan, pull all the troops, that there will be a reemergence of al-Qaida and ISIS and there will be a great major upheaval, as this decision by President Biden is a disaster in the making. So a lot of Republicans agree with those two things. To my Republican colleagues, if we pull the plug on Ukraine, it is going to be worse than Afghanistan. The idea of pulling the plug on Ukraine and it will not affect our national security is a fantasy. It was clear to me that getting out of Iraq in 2011 was too soon and would lead to the rise of radical Islamic terrorists.…”