Posted on 11/11/2026 11:46:45 AM PST by DoodleBob
President Donald Trump defended the war in Iran and said it will be over "soon" during his Veterans Day address on Wednesday.
Trump made the statement while speaking to a crowd of veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery. He highlighted the 1983 Iran-backed bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and argued that Iran has been at war with the U.S. for decades.
"America did not start a war with Iran. Iran has been waging war on America since 1979. They should have been taken care of a long time ago," Trump said.
"And it was just about time somebody fought back. All of us fought back. We fought back, and we fought back. We won. Now the question is when we want to end. We must have a total victory. Not a 93% victory. It's going to be total," he continued.
Trump noted that of the roughly seven months of conflict, "only a few weeks were active fighting," but he acknowledged the casualties America sustained.
"We lost 18 beautiful souls," Trump said. "When this conflict is over, and it will be soon, the entire world will be much safer, a better place, more peaceful place and a place without the kind of danger that we had to suffer
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“We fought back, and we fought back. We won. Now the question is when we want to end.” Trump, if we won isn’t it the end?
He’s a worldwide laughing stock.
Still spewing bs.
I’d say sometime before January when the most pro-Iran/anti-Israel congress in U.S. history is sworn in to office.
We didn’t “win”, we took a strategic pause. We will only win when every last mullah is dead and the people will have a free country again. Even then, vigilance will be necessary for an indefinite period. This is really a 1,400 year war and it will continue in other venues. Islam is incompatible with civilization.
We did not “win”.
We stopped.
Winning would be when there were no more mullahs, only acolytes. Only IRGC privates looking for someone to surrender to and a new government installed by the Iranian people after throwing out the regime.
THAT’s winning,,,,not running around looking for some to negotiate with. IMHO, its why DJT is a lame duck.
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