Pete Hegseth Slams Garamendi for Calling Iran War a ‘Quagmire:’ ‘Shame on You’ — ‘Who Are You Cheering for Here?’

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HEGSETH: “What we have right now, the way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, congressman, you should know better. Shame on you calling this a quagmire two months in. The effort, what they’ve undertaken, what they’ve succeeded, the success on the battlefield that could create strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies? Shame on you for that statement. And statements like that are reckless to our troops. Don’t say 'I support the troops' on one hand, and then a two-month mission is a quagmire. That’s a false equivalency. Who are you cheering for here? Who are you pulling for? Our troops are doing incredible work. They’ve done incredible things for the entirety of this mission and achieved incredible battlefield successes. And you sit there and go on TV for your clickbait about quagmires. It undermines the mission. Your hatred for President Trump blinds you to the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing, which the American people support. Iran’s been at war with us for 47 years. You want to talk about a forever war? For two months, this president has stared them down. He’s going to get a better deal than anyone ever has and ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon. I know the American people support that mission despite your loose talk and words like 'quagmire.'"