Magaziner Statement on U.S. Military Action in Venezuela

“The American people do not want to be dragged into another war, and do not want to occupy another country just to make oil executives richer.

President Bush asked for the support of Congress and the American people before launching the disastrous Iraq War. President Trump didn’t even do that before putting American troops in harm’s way to further enrich his friends.

Maduro is a bad guy. But there are a lot of countries run by bad guys, and we learned in Iraq what can happen when an American President recklessly starts a war with no plan to secure peace. We cannot make that mistake again. I suspected that this might happen, and voted in December to block military action in Venezuela. The measure failed by just two votes. We need more Members of Congress with the guts to put a check on Donald Trump’s abuses of power.”