congressman mcgovern on the hill? i don t believe it is. i don t believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house who traditionally doesn t vote actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic party wants to us figure out a way to get out of this thing. we ve been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building over in afghanistan when quite frankly, we should be doing more nation building here in the united states. let s take a look at another document before we go back to congresswoman pingree. one document from september 2007, three years ago disclosed afghan district officials made brutal assessments of the afghan government to american civil fairs officer. the reports says the people of afghanistan keep losin