Pete Buttigieg Slams Trump Amid the Iran War: We Don’t Know How Much Blood and Treasure Will Go into This War

RUSH EXCERPT:
BUTTIGIEG: "Well, whether we think about it from the perspective of the American economy or from the perspective of the service members whose lives are on the line as they’re being sent to war, we see reminder after reminder of why this is the gravest decision that a president can make, why there should be a high, the highest bar for the use of force. Why does something that you only do if you have no alternative? And that’s clearly just not the case here. The president has not even tried to convince the American people or the Congress that he had no choice but to go to war, and the result is we are in a war where it’s not even clear what the mission is. Some days it’s about nuclear weapons, which Iran did not have. Some days it is about regime change, although it’s not clear what that would even mean to the satisfaction of this president. It is almost as if he decided to go to war because he wanted to go to war, and the cost of that will come down on the shoulders of people like the men and women that I served with. We have already lost American lives, and we don’t know how much blood and treasure will go into this war. But also, as you pointed out, we’re already paying the price here at home."