Sanders: Bolton Believes War and Militarism Is the Answer to Everything

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SANDERS: "Needless to say I disagree with John on a lot. This is a man who was a key adviser to President Bush in urging him to get involved and to invade Iraq because supposedly Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. As I think most Americans now know that effort in Iraq was the worst foreign policy disaster in As I think most Americans now know that effort in Iraq was the worst foreign policy disaster in the modern history of this country. We lost 4,400 American soldiers, the modern history of this country. We lost 4,400 American soldiers, brave soldiers, 31,000 wounded, half a million iraqys dead. Bolton talks about appropriately so the increased influence that Iran has on Iraq. That is true. half a million iraqys dead. Bolton talks about appropriately so the increased influence that Iran has on Iraq. That is true. That is precisely because of the That is precisely because of the war in Iraq. So I think you have some people unfortunately in Washington, Bolton being one of them, who believe that war and militaryism is the answer to everything. We have spent over $2 trillion in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet today our infrastructure here in the United States is Crum crumbling. We have millions of people can’t afford to go to college or leaving college deeply in debt. Maybe we might want to be investing in the American people rather than inflated military budgets and more and more wars."