Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), who served in the Air Force in Iran and Afghanistan, criticized during a CNN interview President Trump’s politicization of U.S. airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“Donald Trump wanted this nice movie where he could come in at the end, deliver a blow, tie it up with a bow, have a ceasefire, and it’s the end of a blockbuster movie. And unfortunately, he, by his own doing, said it was obliterated. He created these questions," Kinzinger told CNN host Anderson Cooper. "And so now what you have is [Defense Secretary] Pete Hegseth and everybody around Donald Trump that are trying to create a straw man, and the straw man is ‘you’re going after the military."

Debate has been brewing in the administration and Congress over whether Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacities were actually destroyed by

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