Above the televised president ial debate tonight. So we think weve got the best thing going here and were glad you chose to be with us tonight. Id like to acknowledge some very important people who are with us this evening. Matts parents tim and debbie costello, who are here with us tonight and his wife kristin, who is here tonight. And, of course, in my book the two most important costellos are sophia and theodore and theyre at home, i guess. They can come next time. Theyre matt and kristins wonderful little kids. I would also like to welcome the members of our board of directors who are with us tonight. We have ann stock and lets give ann a hand. Yes. And bob mcgee. [ applause ] and we have two that are in route, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be a little bit late but will be with us here tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house our National Council of white house history, which he and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most i
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The strikes and the training that we are providing to this eerie and rebels is not a strategy over the long term thats going to succeed. There needs to be more. I would like to see, but i think the American Public deserves is a congress airing on this debate so that we know what we are going to be doing before we do it. Ever since the iraq he war started, we have much more coming out of the executive branch and congress has taken a backseat and i feel like there is less accountability as it relates to Foreign Policy. No matter what side you come down alternately on the vote, the American Public deserves to hear what we are doing and before we do it. This is not only a longterm investment militarily but when the troops come home we have to care for them and we need to look at this with a clear lens. When we first went to iraq we we had the lowest members of the veterans in congress ever and you have to wonder how he made all of these blunders. I think that we need a veterans perspective