Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, said Thursday he took on Sen. Bernie Sanders' through Twitter about caring for veterans because he is tired of watching politicians "pandering to veterans."
"I have always disliked it when politicians start pandering to veterans and telling us how bad we have it and that if we just vote for them that they will fix all of our problems," the Texas Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
"That is just not true. It also gets to a really false choice which is why we went to war in the first place. I went there because our country needed it. We went there because it was in the best interest of our country."
Sanders had tweeted, "If you can't afford to take care of your veterans, then don't go to war," prompting Crenshaw to respond: "Watching Bernie pander to different groups to get their vote has always disgusted me, but now it’s personal. I didn't go to war so that you would take care of me, Bernie. I went because I wanted to serve and our country needed it."
Crenshaw said when he was fighting overseas, he was not thinking about being taken care of down the road
"That doesn't mean we shouldn't take care of our veterans, but this is also, another I think, falsehood that Bernie is spreading," he said. "This is a bipartisan issue."
Congress looks for ways to improve veteran care, and more is being spent on Veterans Affairs than in the past, and "he knows that," said Crenshaw.
"He is trying to rile people up," he added. "He trying to make people angry. He is trying to tell victims or trying to tell veterans that they are victims. And that only he can take care of them. I just think that's such a dishonest way to do politics and I think he should be called out for it."
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