Reply #79: Marcy Kaptur D OH

[marions ghost]

she says "for this hearing, we are missing important votes on other issues..."interesting" timing" ------------

re. DSM -- I have never seen so many retirements of top military, national guard. I am troubled by what's happening to our forces and I'm deeply troubled about 25,000 contractors on the ground "security"--we do not know what they are there for.

Backdrop to what is happening now:
LOOK AT deployment figures for last 5 years--airfields built prior to the invasion, etc. Urges people to research this themselves.

During 1980's arming of Hussein (Reagan and Bush admin) -- no records of sales right to end of 1980's. Chemical sales. That record has never been established.