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Members of Congress were part of a briefing on the unauthorized and ill-advised Iran war. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. The lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is surprising since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material. Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge, especially because we killed their leader's family, caused untold damage to the country and the environment, and murdered hundreds of kids. So, what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war. And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. Iran can gum up the Strait and Trump's reckless and ill-equipped administration doesn't know how to get it safely back open, which is unforgivable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable and 100% avoidable.