Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Wednesday appeared before the House Armed Services Committee with General Dan Caine, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to testify on the ongoing Iran conflict.
The US and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran at the end of February.
“The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans,” Hegseth said in his opening statement.
Pete Hegseth went off on Democrat Rep Garamendi (CA) for calling the Iran conflict a quagmire.
“I watched you call this a “quagmire” on CNN this morning,” Hegseth said.
“My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan. Years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing,” Hegseth said.
“The way you stain the troops when you tell them this two months in, Congressman, you should know better. Shame on you, calling this a quagmire two months in,” he added.
Hegseth also blasted the Obama-era Iran nuke deal during his statement to lawmakers.
“It gave them a bunch of money up front. The future, the fund you talked about, negotiated deals funded, allowed them to fund their proxies and spread. Hamas and Hezbollah all around the region, build up nuclear capability,” he said.
“President Trump has been clear-eyed,” he said.
“You have to stare down this kind of enemy, who’s hellbent on getting a nuclear weapon, and get them to at the point where they’re at the table giving it up in a way that ensures they’ll never have it,” he said.
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