November 13, 2007 (LPAC)-- Nine-term Democrat Jim McDermott (Wash.) of the House Ways and Means Committee, in a brief statement on the House floor November 9, called for members of Congress to participate as soon as possible in an U.S.-Iran war game, and allow the American public to witness it on television. "Think what we would have learned if we had done it before the invasion of Iraq," he said.

He said in his call, "My concern that the President might launch a military strike against Iran is well known, but my mission here today is not rhetorical.... We know the Pentagon has conducted war games to examine the casualties and consequences of a U.S. military strike against Iran. We should, too. Here are some of the questions we could consider: How many dead? Wounded? How much destruction? Would we pulverize Iranian targets with bunker buster bombs?

"A group of recently retired, high-level CIA intelligence agents brought the idea to me. These are patriots whom we trusted with keeping and protecting America's secrets. They and others, including a retired Air Force Colonel, who conducted war games in the Pentagon, would accurately produce a U.S.-Iran war game, just as it's done in the Pentagon. I know because they gave me a plan.

"A military strike against Iran would involve life and death issues. We need to understand what that would look like. I urge my colleagues and the media to join me in demanding that we publicly conduct a U.S.-Iran war game as soon as possible...."