President Donald Trump used his Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday to defend the U.S. war with Iran, saying the United States did not start the conflict and would settle for nothing less than total victory.
“America did not start a war with Iran. Iran has been waging war on America since 1979,” Trump said. “Somebody fought back. All of us fought back. We fought back. And we seriously fought back. And we won.”
“Just a question of when we want to end it,” he added. “We want to make sure we have a total victory, not a 93 percent victory. It’s going to be total. It’ll take them 25 years to rebuild back what we have destroyed, and hopefully we won’t have to destroy any more of that country.”
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