We went into Vietnam under a lie. We lost close to 60,000Americans. Millions of people in Vietnam, Cambodia died as a result of that. So you think twice about it. And In the war in Iraq, you had people like Dick Cheney and others telling us, oh, they have nuclear weapons and all that stuff. It's the only way we can resolve the issue. I didn't believe it, I didn't agree with it. And you're right. Turns out historically, I was right. What's the way to fight this thing that Martin Luther King tried to fight, which is the military industrial complex? It's huge. I mean, it gets to the broader issue of where we are as a nation. (05:28–05:47)
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Asserts that claims about Iraq having nuclear weapons were false and that he was correct in opposing the war.
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