Politics and you didnt force morsi from story and not keeping him in power, but stay out of our politics. There is this irony, we play a small role. We can play a small role. We can be catalysts for things, but i think to argue that we are the drivers of jihad, that we were the drivers of extremist in iraq to me given a whole host of factors involved, given the stakes that people feel every single day versus the extent to which americans dont have to live with the consequences, i think the responsibility has to be 95 on the people who were living this every day and 5 on the outsiders who were trying sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for selfinterested reasons to affect the outcomes. Let me try to answer this question. Im not an expert on terrorism, but believe it or not, in 1991 during george bush the first presidency when we, and i refer to call it the iraqi pro democracy proximity rather than the iraqi opposition, we could not meet with the United States government because we wer
Military personnel saying that the troops who were in that part of iraq who had been trained by the americans, had been trained to fight against trivial not to fight against the kind of invasion that they were confronted with. The other point is that when the isis came into the area, they announced on loud speakers everyone should stay in their homes, were not after the civilians, were after the soldiers, that would have provided a great incentive for the soldiers to take off their iforms and pretend theyre civilians. I want to hear what you think . The second is true. I heard from my sources on the ground in most ul. They came in and said were not hear to harm civilians, stay in your homes. The governor of mosul right now is an exiraqi army officer, not a former jihaddy. They have moved on to fight further south. I agree with you on that. Its probably correct and that did give the soldiers the opportunity to shed their uniforms. On what they were trained to do by americans, i would sa
The cftc has already done. I urge my colleagues to support the commonsense amendment. Lets just do whats reflected here. I thank the gentleman for his input and yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from new jersey your time is expired. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey will e postponed. For what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma rise . Mr. Lucas mr. Chairman, i move the committee do now rise. The chair the question is on the motion that the committee rise. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly, the committee rises. The speaker pro tempore mr. Chairman. The chair mr. Speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union, having had under consider