"The president made the very wise decision, we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."
"I lost friends in Iraq to an illegal war. A young working-class kid should not pay the ultimate price for regime change and a war that hasn't been explained or justified to the American people."
"Look, I'm still living with the war. It just frustrates me that we didn't learn the lessons from 2003."
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered military strikes against Iran on Saturday, resulting in dozens of Iranian officials killed, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and hundreds of civilian deaths including at least 165 children at a girls' school. Six U.S. soldiers died in a retaliatory Iranian drone strike in Kuwait. Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified the U.S. bombing as preemptive action, stating the administration knew Israel would strike and that acting first would prevent higher American casualties. Senator Ruben Gallego, an Iraq war veteran, expressed strong opposition, criticizing the lack of explanation or justification to the American people and drawing parallels to the 2003 Iraq War.
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