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>> never thought i'd hear those words. mark, when john kerry ran for president people like pat buchanan and i were making fun of his "i voted for the $87 billion before i voted against it." now john kerry is saying the words that he pledged the syrian attack would be unbelievably small. huh? help me out with that. >> sure. >> who telegraphs that? >> americans are tired of war. it's been ten years and over a trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars spent. more importantly over 6,000 american lives lost. yes, is america reluctant to -- >> you're not answering my question. he telegraphed it would be ...

Into syria. i think you are going to see that reflected this the vote. especially in the house. >> alisyn: congressman, you are on record with saying that you will not vote for military action in syria. so, given that the assad regime appears, given the evidence that we have seen to have used chemical weapons, what should be done? >> well, i think the number one thing we should do is not take our eye off of the two major problems we have got with our national defense right now. and the first one is iran. and i think that unfortunately syria is causing us to take our eyes off the bat. but the s...

War has defined his public life from the very beginning. his historic senate testimony against the vietnam war in 1971 turned a young, returning veteran into a national figure. >> how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? >> reporter: later, during 28 years in the senate, he was a leading voice on virtually every u.s. military intervention abroad, from panama to iraq and the first gulf war to somalia, bosnia and kosovo. years later, his support for the 2003 iraq invasion -- >> when i vote to give the president of the united states the authority to use force, if necessary --...

>> thank you, jessica. so the 2011 budget control act cut $487 billion from the defense department's protected budget, and the question is can the u.s. afford to act? and then a sequester will cut more, and chuck hagel says the united states is ready to go if the president orders a strike in syria, but this is what he said just one month ago. >> the only way to implement an additional abrupt 10% reduction in the defense department is to make nonstrategic cuts, and disrupt operations, and erode our technological edge. >> are we ready or at risk? a former cyst assistant of defense, thank you f...

Budget request. supplemental money to cover the cost of this operation. remember, each tomahawk missile fired alone is $1.5 million apiece. if you look back at the libyan conflict, there were 211 tomahawks fired, so you do the math, and you are talking about an operation that will cost at least several hundred million dollars. here is republican senator james inhofe who is the leading republican on the senate armed services committee. >> most of them, many of them are not aware of what's happened to our military. right now, taking the projected budget of the president obama, that would take $4...