Turned out to be one of the most remarkable people ever elected to congress. A man who held his opinion and then saw what had been done to him and what he had done to the young men sent to Iraq. And he spent the rest of his life trying to make amends.
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He spoke candidly on several occasions about how deeply he regretted supporting the war, which led to the deaths of more than 140,000 Iraqi and American people.
"I have signed over 12,000 letters to families and extended families who've lost loved ones in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars," he told NPR in 2017. "That was, for me, asking God to forgive me for my mistake."