voice, your patriotism in the room when this president is making life or death decisions about national security. but it obviously reached a breaking point.io i thank him for his years of service in the marines and certainly at the department of i defense. it breaks my heart that he s going to step aside. we counted on him to be there and to stop this president from his worst impulse. i m curious. you re somebody who on policy i m guessing you re pleased thab we re going to start seeing si troops come home from afghanistan and start seeing in troops come home from syria. how do you square the president s announcements about those two things? you called you ve called for both in one way or the other? well, i can tell you that it was 17 years ago when 23 of us, 22 democrats and one republican voted against the invasion of iraq for so-called weapons of mass destruction which never existed. i voted in the same period of time with virtually every other senator to invade afghanistan an