The president isn't the most reliable narrator when it comes to his war in Iran.
You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war.
But you're the only person in your government saying this.
But as it drags on and the Ayatollah gets replaced by his even more extreme Ayatollah son,
you gotta wonder why we're there.
If you ask some of the people closest to President Trump, the answer seems to be Israel.
Here's Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
Senator Lindsey Graham told the Wall Street Journal that he coached Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on how to lobby Trump to join a war against Iran.
He admitted that Israel is driving American foreign policy at the exact moment that Americans on the left and on the right increasingly disapprove of Israel.
Israel has lost Americans on Today Explained.
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