What Graham Platner has said about United States war with Iran

Platner says that as a senator he would block all possible funding for the Iran war.

“Blocking every bit of funding possible. We shouldn't send a single dollar for any of this nonsense”

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Platner accuses Pete Hegseth of using the military to compensate for insecurity about his own military service.

“Pete Hegzeth is literally using the U.S. military to make up for the fact that he's insecure about his own military service”

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Platner argues the Iran war cost $50 billion and 13 American lives merely to restore the pre-war status quo in the Strait of Hormuz.

“we just spent $50 billion, 13 dead Americans, thousands of dead people, gas prices soaring, a possible collapse of fertilizer industries just to get back to where we were?”

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