Political Quotes

“next week I will probably speak more about this. But looking at tax policy and debt and whatnot--I urge Senators to look at the article written by Walter Pincus in today's Washington Post. The two wars we have been in, Iraq and Afghanistan-- the two longest wars in America's history--are noted not just for their length but for the fact that it is the only time America has gone to war where we have not had a special tax to pay for the war. In fact, it is the only time America has gone to war where we not only have not had a tax to pay for the war but we have ended up with a tax cut, and we ended up trillions of dollars in debt as a result. I hope we will come to the time that we will say--especially with wars of choice, these were not cases where we were attacked that there was a totally unnecessary war in Iraq--totally unnecessary. We went to war in Iraq and said we will put it on our credit card. Of course, there were no weapons of mass destruction. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. A bad guy was running it, but there are a lot of countries we support with bad guys running them. There are $1 trillion and thousands of American lives--tens of thousands of coalition and Iraqi lives--gone, and our children are going to have a $1 trillion bill to pay for it and we got absolutely nothing out of it. We went in Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden. We got him.…”