CNN The Situation Room September 5, 2013 22:42:00
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 --...