Graham Platner

Because every time we do this, when you go back and look at it, in hindsight, it's pretty much always a bad idea.

But more importantly for me, there's a human cost to this stuff.

That you've seen?

Yeah.

That you've felt?

I know what it looks like when American-made high explosive interacts with children.

I've touched it.

It's a horrifying thing.

I know what it feels like to have...

friends die and to have a lot of other friends of mine and myself included have to deal with the trauma of that for years afterwards.

We need more people in positions of power, frankly, who either understand it because they've experienced it or who are just kind of ideologically opposed and don't want us to do this kind of stuff.

And it's not just about the moral component.

It's about the fact that this stuff, it doesn't make us safer.

It doesn't make the world safer.

It tends to, to quote a famous Marine who came long before me, war is a racket.

And there are people that make an immense amount of money off of it.

And when you go look at a lot of the wars we fought, frankly, certainly in my lifetime, at the end of the day, that's usually what happens.

And I do not see a war with Iran falling into a different category.

In fact, it seems to be almost like, I mean, I said this about Venezuela as well.

It's like Iraq, but dumber.