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Hello.
So do you remember a few months ago when the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the USA renamed his job to be the Secretary of War?
Well, now he's got a war as the US and Israel continue to attack Iran in a really quite big way.
And today we heard from Pete Hegseth as he gave the world an update.
My generation of veterans carry the names of brothers who never came home.
brothers butchered by Iranian backed roadside bombs, and well armed militias, thousands of our own.
We didn't start this war.
But under President Trump, we are finishing it.
Yeah,
so we will tell you more about what the Americans have been saying about they're trying to achieve in this military action.