What was your thinking at the time behind those speeches, behind voting no on the Patriot act, on the Iraq resolution? It maybe ironically came out of maybe the war in Vietnam and the ease and lies that people told. We went into Vietnam under a lie. We lost close to 60,000 Americans. 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. (05:15–05:28)
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Asserts that the Vietnam War was based on a lie, resulting in the deaths of nearly 60,000 Americans and millions in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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