1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

I am one of the two-thirds of Americans dead set against putting boots on the ground in Iran, and this Congress needs to be prepared to stop it from happening. Please clearly communicate to the White House that this option won’t have your support. Trump’s war against Iran is a war of choice, and one Americans did not choose. We sure as hell don’t want to get ourselves even further into this quagmire. Deploying our young men and women onto Iranian territory will mean more bloodshed on both sides, further complicate our efforts to end this conflict and could lead to dangerous consequences this administration is clearly not ready to handle. The White House took us into battle with no clear objectives and no strategy for getting us out. They keep promising this won’t be another Iraq, but they also pledged to avoid exactly this sort of military adventure and lied to us about why they did it. And let’s be clear - seizing Kharg Island or “securing the strait” is an invasion, and it’s insulting to pretend otherwise. It is incumbent on Congress to prepare for the worst and try to head it off at the pass, and putting our troops even more directly in harm’s way with a plan Trump and Hegseth are making up as they go along certainly qualifies. We’ve all seen this before. We just spent two decades with our troops killing and dying in forever wars in the Middle East. It cost us too many lives and too much money and gained us far too little. We are not going back to that. We’re counting on you to protect our troops.