I know, this is quite the rhetorical question, but the response goes far deeper than just saying, "because they hate President Trump." Last week, the SecWar and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for the first time since the start of combat operations against Iran on 28 February.

Watching the inquiries, or rather disconcerting assertions from the Democrat members, should cause us all a great deal of concern. For me, this is very personal, considering that I came on active duty at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, as a new Field Artillery Second Lieutenant on 30 October 1983. It was just a week prior that 241 Marines, Sailors, and a Soldier lost their lives in the Beirut barracks bombing due to a truck bomb delivered by Hezbollah Islamic terrorists. Then, and now, Hezbollah has been a proxy army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism in the world. As well, I recall the taking of the American embassy in Tehran and the hostage crisis that ensued, lasting for over 400 days. I was a student at the University of Tennessee, going through Army ROTC at the time.

Later, as a commander in Iraq, I had to contend with Iranian agents seeking to undermine our operations in our zone north of Baghdad near the town of Taji. And after my retirement, I served as an advisor to the Afghanistan Army, based in Kandahar, where Iranian weaponry and deadly explosive force penetrator (EFP) improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were being employed, as they were in Iraq. Those EFPs were responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of American troops.

So, when I hear these delusional leftists of the Democrat party ranting about a "war of choice," it is highly disturbing. If these so-called elected representatives of the........

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