President Donald Trump took us to war against Iran by claiming that he was protecting us from weapons that do not exist.

The shameful war turned shameless 24 hours later, when six American service members were killed while left unprotected from a very real weapon the regime is known to have stockpiled in the thousands.

After the deaths in what was likely a drone strike on a tactical operations center in Kuwait, Trump offered not much more than a shrug. He suggested in a video he posted on Monday that such things are just a fact of war, which he has dodged and never seen firsthand.

“That’s the way it is,” he said as if out of experience. “There will likely be more.”

He continued to say the war was necessary to save the American homeland from long-range, nuclear-armed missiles that the Iranians have never possessed.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whose job includes protecting our soldiers against actual weapons, sought to minimize the failure.

“You have air defenses, and a lot’s coming in, and you hit most of it,” Hegseth said during a news conference at the Pentagon. “Every once in a while, you might have one, unfortunately, we call it a squirter, that makes its way........

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