Congress asked the Pentagon to justify the Iran war. It had no answer

Five months before the Iran war began, the Trump administration's own national security strategy described Iran's military capabilities as significantly degraded. Today, that is the exact same phrase the Pentagon used to describe what the war achieved. In a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Moulton pressed Admiral Cooper directly — if Iran was already degraded before the first bomb dropped, what exactly justified starting the war? Cooper had no answer. Fourteen Americans are dead. Twenty-nine billion dollars spent. Gas is at $4.50. And the administration still cannot explain what changed.