The hearing was briefly interrupted by four antiwar activists protesting the occupation of Afghanistan. The protesters threw money stained with blood and shouted, “Stop pouring blood money into warfare.” One demonstrator stood up to repeat the words of committee chair, Senator John Kerry, when he testified as an antiwar veteran during the Vietnam War: “How do you ask someone to be the last American soldier to die for a mistake?” The activists are members of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance.