Sen. Tim Kaine: ‘There Is No National Security Imperative’ to Go at War with Iran

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KAINE: "It’s an Article 1 power that too many Congresses have ceded to presidents, the power to start war. And I am bound and determined that no one who carries the title U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative should hide on a question of whether we should be at war or not. I happen to believe that the U.S. being at war with Iran would be a colossal mistake. There is no national security imperative that suggests that we should. I support aid to enable Israel to defend itself, but this need not be a U.S. war. And those who are urging us on apparently have forgotten the lessons of the 20 years of war in the Middle East that caused so much heartache and damage in the region, but also in Virginia and all American states. When I got elected to the Senate in 2012, I told myself that if I ever had the chance to stop an unnecessary war of the kind we were living through then, I would do everything possible to do that. And that’s why I filed this resolution."