Even when the first authorization to George Bush to go, many of us were arguing, hey, we have to redo this. We gotta make sure that we're part of this, good, bad or ugly. And what I found was Members of Congress didn't wanna vote on [war authorization] because they wouldn't have to go home and explain it. And they told me this, a lot of them, and they said, yeah, you were in the middle. You can kind of explain this at home. Because this is not easy stuff. (51:16–51:21)
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