GOP Officials Call Iran Attack ‘An Operation,’ ‘Military Action,’ ‘Conflict That’s Short and Sweet’

EXCERPT:

COLE: "It's military action."
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MAST: "Whether somebody wants to call it a battle, a war, a combat operation, I'm not really interested in the semantics of it."
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TUBERVILLE: "I wouldn't call this a war as much as I'd call it a conflict that should be very short and sweet, if you can put it that way."
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RAJU: Do you acknowledge that this is a war — this is a war right now?
JOHNSON: "I think it's an operation."