Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an article that is dated today, Monday, May 7, 2012, from the Associated Press, Congress's Intelligence Heads: Taliban Has Grown Stronger under Obama. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Mike Rogers, who I just saw outside, a smart guy, former FBI agent, well respected in the areas of law enforcement and the security of this country, well, as the article points out, and there are other articles as well, I believe Human Events also had one, but this article from the AP says: The leaders of congressional intelligence committees said Sunday they believed that the Taliban had grown stronger since President Barack Obama sent 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in 2010. The pessimistic report by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D Calif., and Rep. Mike Rogers, R Mich., challenges Obama's own assessment last week in his visit to Kabul that the ``tide had turned'' and that ``we broke the Taliban's momentum.'' The two recently returned from a fact-finding trip to the region where they met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. ``President Karzai believes that the Taliban will not come back. I'm not so sure,'' Feinstein said. ``The Taliban has a shadow system of governors in many provinces.'' When asked if the Taliban's capabilities have been degraded since Obama deployed the additional troops two years ago, Feinstein said: ``I think we'd both say that what we've found is that the Taliban is stronger.'' I was in Afghanistan a couple weeks ago.…”