Newly surfaced documentary footage shows the late Senator Lindsey Graham celebrating the start of the Iran war he spent years pushing — a damning look for war critics, and a reminder of how badly the war has gone.

• A filmmaker followed Graham for a year and caught his reaction as Trump announced strikes on Iran — Graham said he "almost cried" and called it "the best thing I've ever done."
• Graham was one of the main people who talked Trump into the war, comparing Trump and Netanyahu to Roosevelt and Churchill.
• In one call, Graham pushed Netanyahu to also bomb Hezbollah in Lebanon — going further than Netanyahu himself wanted.
• Early predictions that Iranian cities would fall in weeks and the war would end fast were completely wrong.

Outlook: Five months in, the war has become a costly disaster with no quick end, and its backers are running out of ways to defend it.