Jim Himes

American people, even if you're not sort of interested in the words of the Constitution, committing our young men and women, putting them at risk, getting them killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States Congress, the representatives of the people should have a role in that decision.

These guys, and this is why the American people need to see this video, these guys were...

We're barely alive, much less engaging in hostilities.

What you see in that video is the United States for a lengthy period of time observing two men with no weapons, with no radio.

They've just had a massive munition go off over their head in such a way that their boat has been a conflagration.

So what I saw was two probably soon to be dead, not because of a missile, but because of drowning, shipwrecked sailors.

And the United States took the decision to kill them, which in the Pentagon manual is the very definition of a war crime.

What you see in that video is the United States for a lengthy period of time observing two men with no weapons, with no radio.

They've just had a massive munition go off over their head in such a way that their boat has been destroyed.

A conflagration.

So what I saw was two probably soon to be dead, not because of a missile, but because of drowning, shipwrecked sailors.

And the United States took the decision to kill them, which in the Pentagon manual is the very definition of a war crime.