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mr. jones. mr. jones: thank you. general campbell, thank you and your staff for being here today. i'm going to take a different approach. i looked at your narrative and the comment by senator levin, who is now retired and said, i cite these public opinion polls americans, 65%, 70% think we haven't received anything and he's critical of the people that don't think we've achieved anything by saying at the end of it and people that are 7,000 miles away think we haven't. well i would say to the senator it's those people back home that are paying the bills. they need to get something out of the tax dollars that they're paying. when we went into afghanistan in 2001, the debt of our nation was $5.95 trillion. today it is other $1 trillion in debt. -- it is over $18 trillion in debt. you know from your brothers and sisters in the military what we're faced with with budgets. all right. then, i read in a blog yesterday from someday jason ditz, between casualties and desertion, the afghan military is shrinking fast. the desertion problem is a long standing one, with many afghans signing up i

mr. jones. mr. jones: thank you. general campbell, thank you and your staff for being here today. i'm going to take a different approach. i looked at your narrative and the comment by senator levin, who is now retired and said, i cite these public opinion polls americans, 65%, 70% think we haven't received anything and he's critical of the people that don't think we've achieved anything by saying at the end of it and people that are 7,000 miles away think we haven't. well i would say to the senator it's those people back home that are paying the bills. they need to get something out of the tax dollars that they're paying. when we went into afghanistan in 2001, the debt of our nation was $5.95 trillion. today it is other $1 trillion in debt. -- it is over $18 trillion in debt. you know from your brothers and sisters in the military what we're faced with with budgets. all right. then, i read in a blog yesterday from someday jason ditz, between casualties and desertion, the afghan military is shrinking fast. the desertion problem is a long standing one, with many afghans signing up i

jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. today the house budget committee will reveal the budget for fiscal year 2016. that budget will contain more money for afghanistan, which is why i am speaking on the floor today. afghanistan is an absolutely waste of taxpayers' money. it is a true graveyard of empires. just two years ago i was speaking on the floor about a "new york times" article titled, karzai was assured c.i.a. would continue to deliver bags of cash. i will quote from that article again today. the c.i.a. money, mr. karzai told reporters, was an easy source of petty cash and some of it was used to pay off members of the political elite and a group dominated by warlords. this past sunday an article in the raleigh north carolina paper titled c.i.a. cash help to refill al qaeda's covers. according to the art erikle the c.i.a. contributes to al qaeda bottom line was another in a long list of examples of how the united states largely because of poor oversight and loose financial controls has sometimes inadvertently financ

the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker last week in the house armed services committee, we had a hearing on the budget for fiscal year 2016. secretary of defense ashton carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, both testified before the committee. and i have great respect for both of them. i asked them if after a decade in afghanistan keeping troops in afghanistan for nine more years would even make a difference. last year in his "politico" article and i quote the title was "down the opium rathole," roger says, and i quote, if you spent 13 years pounding money down the rathole with little to show for it you might wake up one morning and say, hey, i'll stop pounding money down this rathole. unfortunately, the united states government does not think this way. even though our combat troops are leaving afghanistan, our money will continue to flow there. billions after billions. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to submit this "politico" article for the record. the speaker pro tempore:

the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker last week in the house armed services committee, we had a hearing on the budget for