Jon Ossoff
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Georgia and Democratic candidate for reelection, at a campaign event
Condemned
Statement summary
At a Georgia campaign event, Sen. Jon Ossoff said three more U.S. service members had been confirmed killed in action in a war he said the president launched on lies. He contrasted the administration's claim that Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated with its later claim of an imminent threat, and its predictions that the war would last days or weeks.
“We just learned over the weekend: three more confirmed killed in action from this war the president launched on lies. Do you all remember that he declared victory on the fourth day of this war? Do you remember last year they told us they had obliterated Iran’s nuclear program? Then this year they told us that it posed an imminent threat to our national security, and they had to take us to war. They told us it would just last a few days. They told us it would just last a few weeks.”