I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately. We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.

X.com ^ | Nov 9, 2026 | InfantryDort @infantrydort

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Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.

I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.

We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.

Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.

His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.

GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.

We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.

And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the [redacted] sand.

So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.

Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.

That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.

From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.

No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.

And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.

Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.

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[rlmorel]

"...A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here...."

That's the truth. And we have a lot of people coming out of the woodwork here on this website who were never conservatives to begin with, and at worst, are part of the ongoing Color Revolution being waged that we are up to our necks in right now.

They feel emboldened, and are revealing themselves.

[cgbg]

President Trump promised “no war” over and over again.

It is not our fault if we believed him.

[Texas Eagle]

Do demonicRATS have something on this Massie guy or is he just a natural born asshole?

[Texas Eagle]

Amen. Slithering low in the weeds like Mohammed el-Sayed. They think it’s safe to come out now. Maybe it is. We’ll have to wait and see.

[Dr. Franklin]

I expect the House will approve Articles of Impeachment against Hegseth. Had this vote occurred before the election, the results might have been different. Trump’s war with Iran is not popular and the Congress will curtail it.

[vivenne]

Latter.

[central_va]

Not going to happen

[ryderann]

Doubt if Trump knew at the time he made the promise how close Iran was to sending nuclear bombs to our cities and our allies’ cities.

[cgbg]

That is an insane claim—wild propaganda—zero proof.

We got baited and switched.

Deal with it.

[NorthMountain]

Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.

This! 100%!

[Carl Vehse]

President Trump promised “no war” over and over again.

Iran promised not to build a nuclear weapon over and over again.

[pingman]

Has it occurred to you that circumstances can change radically, often overnight? Trump’s 1st job is to protect Americans, and when presented with new, daunting information, he chose to act, campaign promises notwithstanding. Judge a man by his actions, not his words. Words are cheap.

[maddog55]

If Pete is impeached in the House, then the Senate agrees after their investigation then they need 67 votes for removal.

Pete should just say 1 more and I’ll be tied with the CIC!!

[Dr. Franklin]

Not going to happen

There are now tens of House Republicans who don't appear to be coming back in the next session of Congress in January, and they may very well vote their displeasure of Trump's Iran war for the record this week. Only a handful of Republicans needs to vote to impeach for Hegseth to stand trial in the Senate.

[marktwain]

That is an insane claim—wild propaganda—zero proof.

We got baited and switched.

Deal with it.

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Trump never promised “no war”. No one can promise that, because it only takes one side to start a war. He promised no more forever wars. He had to take out Iran. It would have been really, really stupid not to.

History will bear it out. When an enemy wages war on you for 47 years, and the same enemy repeatedly desires your destruction, whose ideology calls for your destruction, and who is on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons, it would be stupid not to act.

Do you really think the Iranian Theocracy would not have done all it could to destroy us? They continue to do so, but their abililty to project force outside of Iran is severely diminished. They are not concerned with the welfare of their people. They want to bring about the apocalypse. They have repeatedly said so.

They have been the biggest exporter of terror on the planet. They are not stupid. They are evil.

Could the war have been sold better? Yes. Did the Iranians and our other adversaries do everything in their power to make the war painful to the USA, so as to work the politics against President Trump? Yes they did.

Their masterful use of propaganda along with the Democratic Party worked wonderfully.

[Albion Wilde]

He promised no new wars, while settling a half-dozen other conflicts that were hampering trade.

Iran's war against us had been going on for 39 years. At last we have a president who cleaned out their nuke nest, clawed back some of the billions Obama sent them to enable jihad against this country, and called their bluff on their threats to annihilate us.

It's not the war that made our side lose the election. It's milquetoast Republicans.

[Jubal Harshaw]

Well, kinda. I recall Trump promising no NEW wars and no MORE wars.

Thing is, there’s been a war between the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran since at least 1979.

No, Congress did not declare war, so there’s a case to be made that the President (and SOW) exceeded their authority by committing US troops to wage that war. Especially after Congress demanded an end to hostilities in June 2026. However, the war still existed long before Trump ever went into politics.

So, he didn’t break his own pledge regarding no NEW wars. He might have violated the Constitution and the War Powers Act ... but that’s a different issue.

[wastedyears]

“global war on terror” lol so brainwashed

No aircraft were used that day.

[McGruff]