Senator Ruben Gallego

And number two, we weren't even properly aligned to actually do it and have the protection that we needed for ourselves, our allies, and again, for...

uh for the the finishing and the conclusion of this war so this this whole thing which is not planned out it makes extremely dangerous extremely volatile in the fact of the way they're doing it and you can tell right now that this administration only had the concept of a one to two one to three day war and now they're finding themselves in a situation where we might be in this thing of a longer time which again

How does this deal with our, how does this actually interact with our national interests?

Because we're going to end up having to pull munitions and manpower from East Asia and from Europe to deal with this regional war that was essentially started by Netanyahu.

Yeah, this is like we're like entering in like 1984, George Orwell, you know, like doublespeak that's happening right now.

So let's get down to why we're here.

We're here in this situation where there's like multiple reasons for this because the president himself has not taken the time to actually address the country and answer questions why we're at war.

Think about that.

We have moved basically 50% of our war-making capabilities to the Middle East and have at least contributed to the region in terms of bringing in, whether it's our platforms in the air, our assets on sea, all this kind of stuff, probably also our intel.

But the president's not actually answering questions.

And so now he's leaving this up to his lieutenants.

And they're basically road testing different ideas to figure out what is the actual message that will resonate first with their MAGA base, then with the general public, and then with Congress.

Versus a real president, first of all, we've never done this, let's be clear, because this is a dumb way for us to go about this.

But let's say if you decided to go down this road, you would have actually had the logic, the reason down, and you would have actually been showing

the country why we are where we are.

Look, I hated George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney when they sent me to that illegal war.

But they at least managed to lie to us.

Right?

These guys are just telling us, like, we don't have to tell you.

We're going to potentially put your sons and daughters at risk.