[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11789]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BRING OUR TROOPS HOME

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. In a little more than a year, the United States flew 
$12 billion in cash to Iraq, much of it in hundred dollar bills, 
shrinkwrapped, loaded onto pallets. Vanity Fair reported in 2004 that 
at least $9 billion of the cash had gone missing, unaccounted for. Nine 
billion.
  Today, we learned that suitcases of $3 billion in cash have openly 
moved through the Kabul airport. One U.S. official quoted by the Wall 
Street Journal said, ``A lot of this looks like our tax dollars being 
stolen.'' Three billion dollars. Consider this step as the American 
people sweat out extension of unemployment benefits.
  Last week, the BBC reported that the U.S. military has been giving 
tens of millions of dollars to Afghan security firms who are funneling 
the money to warlords. Add to that a corrupt Afghan government, 
underwritten by the lives of our troops. And now reports indicate that 
Congress is preparing to attach $10 billion in State education funding 
to a $33 billion spending bill to keep the war going.
  Back home millions of Americans are out of work, losing their homes, 
losing their savings, their pensions, their retirement security. We're 
losing our Nation to lies about the necessity of war.
  Bring our troops home. End the war. Secure our economy.

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