Pete Sessions: “I had my fourth trip to Iraq recently and met with a number of leaders over there. I have been impressed with them and…”

“I had my fourth trip to Iraq recently and met with a number of leaders over there. I have been impressed with them and have enjoyed them. I know Senator Nelson has also. He and I are the chair and ranking member respectively of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee. We have worked together on many important issues. I wanted to say a couple things. First, the amendment he has is of value and will be something that can be accepted. I believe it should be. You worry a little bit that maybe language difficulties come into play in how miscommunications can occur. Even among those of us who speak English together, we can have misunderstandings. I was just handed a CNN interview today. It just came across the wire. It was by a reporter, Daryn Kagan, with the new national security adviser to Prime Minister Maliki in Iraq. He was asked about this very subject because the reporter obviously felt some of the same concerns the Senator from Florida raised. He said this to him. The reporter: Doctor, I know there's a big effort by your government in your country to try to prevent civil war. And as a part of that, the Washington Post reports today that your Prime Minister is considering offering amnesty to Sunnis or to others who perhaps attacked only U.S. troops. This, not surprisingly, is causing great consternation here in the U.S., even talking about it and being raised on the floor of the U.S. Senate today. Is this, indeed, the case?…”