It's about accountability. Because nobody is going to sit here and tell me that after 20 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, failed military endeavors, that If this Congress hadn't been forced to debate and vote and finance year after year, [the wars] wouldn't have ended sooner or differently. and to take the accountability for this and to put the American people back in the driver's seat for these conflicts, that they wouldn't have ended sooner or differently. (07:51–08:03)
CLAIM
Asserts that congressional debate, voting, and financing could have led to different or earlier conclusions to the wars.
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