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jct74
11-13-2015, 07:56 AM
from Walter's facebook:


Walter Jones

October 16 at 2:49pm (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10156130920120103&id=15083070102)

ICYMI: Earlier this year, General Campbell told me that with "very little continued investment, we can make this [‪#‎Afghanistan‬] the shining light of Central Asia. Last week at the House Armed Services Committee, I asked him to define "very little continued investment." We've been in Afghanistan for 14 years and it's time to get out. Watch my exchange with General Campbell last week below: ‪#‎nc03‬ ‪#‎ncpol‬

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4555519/100815-rep-walter-jones-questions-strategy-afghanistan

jct74
11-13-2015, 08:58 AM
some more of Walter speaking about Afghanistan recently, on the House floor 10/7

@0:37

http://www.c-span.org/video/?328559-1/us-house-morning-hour

jct74
11-13-2015, 08:59 AM
U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones: Time to leave Afghanistan

Thank you for publishing Kurt Becker’s Oct. 8 letter “Time to leave Afghanistan.” I couldn’t agree more.

Since 2001, we’ve spent over $686 billion and lost over 2,000 of our service members in Afghanistan. Over 20,000 have been wounded.

How much money will we borrow, and how many lives and limbs will be lost, before we stop this fool’s errand?

I’ve worked with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to have the House of Representatives debate whether staying in Afghanistan for eight more years is worth it. I heartily believe it isn’t.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, over the next eight years we will spend another $30 billion a year there. No matter how much blood and borrowed money America invests, history has proved that we will never change this tribal nation. It is truly the graveyard of empires. Let’s not make America part of the graveyard.

Let’s focus on fixing our problems here at home.

U.S. REP. WALTER B. JONES

REPUBLICAN, N.C. DISTRICT 3

FARMVILLE

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article39448842.html

jct74
11-13-2015, 10:06 AM
another floor speech on Afghanistan, 10/20

@1:15

http://www.c-span.org/video/?328694-1/us-house-morning-hour&start=73