Some of my own party have said that it was a mistake to go to Iraq in the first place

and believe that it's not worth the cost, whatever benefit may flow from our engagement in Iraq.

But the cost of not acting against Saddam, I think, would have been much greater.

And so is the cost, and so will be the cost, of not finishing this job.

The President of the United States is a bold leader and he is popular.

I wish he'd use some of his stored up popularity to make what I admit is not a very popular case.

But I and many others will support him when he makes the case.

It's game time, friends. The Iowa caucus is just weeks away. After more than a year of headlines,

town halls, spicy tweets, and 40, yes, 40 episodes of this very podcast, voters will finally get their say about who goes

against Donald Trump this November. With Bernie Sanders leading in Iowa for the first time,

and with the most divers, most working class coalition behind him, this has become a two-person

race between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

That's why it's time we get specific about why it has to be Bernie.

If you tune in regularly, you already know why Bernie is the most electable candidate.

He's got the head-to-head polls,

the enthusiasm, the money, and small dollar donations, of course, and great polling in key swing states and early states. We also know that Bernie has a quality that takes a lifetime to cultivate

and is impossible to fake. Integrity.

Throughout Bernie's long career,

he has consistently taken tough and lonely positions,

only for history to prove him right.

This was true of the Iraq War, NAFTA, and the Patriot Act.

This is part of why Bernie polls so well among independents, the largest voting group in the country, and is particularly strong in critical rest belt states that win for Trump

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