Even for a man with such a tenuous hold on the truth, Donald Trump may come to regret his justification for going to war with Iran.

More than anything else, the president is consumed with his legacy.

But history may well remember Trump very differently than he hopes. Not for his Big War but for his Big Lie.

Trump’s suck-up MAGA cheerleader Lindsey Graham has suggested the attacks on Tehran will be Trump’s “Cold War Moment,” comparing him to Ronald Reagan.

But the president he will likely be compared to is George W. Bush, who waged war on Saddam Hussein on the basis of another whopper—that Iraq had a hidden stash of weapons of mass destruction.

That war would claim more than 4,500 American service members’ lives, with another 31,000 injured. All based on a lie.

Trump went to war with Iran on Saturday based on not one lie, but two.

Announcing the strikes in an early morning video from Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday, the president said his motive in attacking a foreign power—without any authorization from Congress—was to eliminate “imminent threats” to the United States and its allies from Tehran.

The only clue to these threats was Trump’s doomsday warning about the possibility of nuclear strikes. He accused the regime of “developing long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the........

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