United States Congressman John “Jimmy” Duncan Jr. spoke to congress in opposition of the continuation of the Middle East war, Friday, Sept. 21.  The message was short, and to the point.

Rep. Duncan took the floor of the House and addressed his fellow congressmen, “Mr. Speaker: Americans do not want forever, permanent wars that last three or four times longer than World War II.

They especially do not want us to spend hundreds of billions on people who hate us or don’t at least appreciate what we have done for them.

Probably half the spending we have done over the years in Iraq and Afghanistan has been pure foreign aid.

And we have poured many, many billions into Egypt, Pakistan, and other countries throughout the Middle East.

Our own Nation is $16 trillion dollars in debt.  We are borrowing all this money to send to countries that are exploding with anti-American rage.

Fifty-one American soldiers have been murdered over the past several months by Afghan soldiers and police who they were training.

Now, we have had our Ambassador and three other Americans killed in Libya.

We should have gotten out of Afghanistan years ago.  We need to get out now and not take long to do it.

We need to stop trying to run the whole world, creating so much resentment, and start putting our own Country first once again.

By Wes Hall