Jason Crow

Really?

That's a cost he's willing to take because last time I checked, it wasn't him or his kids or his donors' kids or the other elites in the White House that are having to jump into planes or pick up rifles or are sitting here in military bases around the Middle East being bombed right now.

They shift that burden onto the rest of us.

Of course I don't.

Right.

I mean, the rationale for this changes by the hour.

Right.

And sometimes in the same speech, they give different rationale.

It's going to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon.

It's regime change.

It's to protect Americans against some unnamed, undefined, imminent threat that, you know, by the way, as a member of the Intelligence and Armed Services Committee, I'm not aware of and they haven't briefed us on.

So will the real rationale for this please stand up?

But we can talk all we want about notification and debating and war powers and resolutions.

And I think a lot of Americans just kind of get glazed eyes when they talk about the procedure.

Here's why the procedure and that stuff is important to me as somebody who went and had to fight these wars in the past.

It's about accountability.

There has to be an accountability loop here.

And the reason why we went to war, I think, for 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan is because we stopped taking votes on it.

We stopped debating it.

The trillions of dollars that we spent was largely debt financing.