Senator Mark Warner

We've actually got a worse, more hardline regime than before.

In terms of the enriched uranium, the only way you get that out

would be boots on the ground, minimum of 10,000 folks to guard the perimeter, go down into these bunkers, get this highly volatile and rich uranium and take it out all while the Iranians will be shooting at us.

We have gotten rid of some of their missiles.

We've still got more, but why the hell didn't we

process that we should have taken the offer from the Ukrainians way back in December that said, hey, we'll give you all our drone technology, which is very effective.

Instead, we've spent the first four weeks using generally $2.4 million missiles to shoot down $50,000 Iranian drones.

And now we're running out of interceptors.

You start a war, shouldn't you think that through?

And then on the Navy, we sunk a lot of the Iranian Navy, but they got still $500,000

little speedboats, literally you put a mine on them or a bomb, they can keep the Straits of Hormuz close almost for as long as they want with that fleet of speedboats that we've not really got even a strategy on how to take out.

So we're a month in, 13 service members killed,

billions of cost.

The Iranians, I think, have got this strategy, which again would be predictable, that they don't need to beat America and Israel.

They just need to hold on and they can dribble out their supply of missiles.

And since we so overshot our number of interceptors, ultimately our bases, like in Kuwait or cities in Israel, are going to become vulnerable because we've used up all our anti-missile defense.

I would have been open to that.

I would have been particularly open to it if they'd explain how we're going to execute, but also if Trump had chosen to do this in January, when literally millions of Iranians were on the street protesting the regime.

The reason we couldn't do it in January is because the aircraft carrier, the Ford, that we normally have in theater was off the coast of Venezuela.

And the ability for us to rally any kind of allied support, like the Europeans, and they've been mixed so far, but if we'd done it in January when he was threatening Greenland, we wouldn't even have the flyover rights we've got now.