If there's going to be conventional troops on the ground, a mainland invasion, for example, this is a different phase of the war or conflict that we would be entering into. And Congress needs to be briefed. Congress needs to have a say. And I've said this before, when we were bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt came to Congress to declare war. I was against invading Iraq. (07:18–07:22)
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