Denver Riggleman

Nobody knows.

I don't know.

Those of us in the national security world who have done exercises and war games on Iran or in the Middle East dealing with Iran, I did it for two decades in the United States military, you know, at every rank from midshipmen.

All the way up to Lieutenant Colonel, I've done war games on Iran.

Anybody in the national security world knew on day one that, first of all, there's no military solution for Iran's nuclear program.

But we all knew that they would possibly be able to probably close the Strait of Hormuz, which is why...

We didn't do this for the last 47 years.

You know, when Pete Hagseth and all of these kiss asses around Donald Trump said, well, you know, President Trump's the, he's the most courageous to be able to take on, you know, something that all these other presidents, you know, couldn't, didn't have the courage to take on.

You know, they weren't as stupid.

And it is scary because, you know, I do think people remember Vietnam and Afghanistan and people remember that, you know, the United States won every battle.

tactically, in Vietnam and Afghanistan and still lost both of those wars.

It's unbelievable to me that we are still doing this kind of thing.

But one of the questions I get asked, and I got asked this just yesterday, is about the Democratic Party.

And there was a question to me about, well, are Democrats doing enough to condemn this war?

I agree.

And I also feel like exactly what you just said is that when people say to me, why are Democrats standing up being more forceful on this war?

I'm like, what do you want Democrats to do?

They're not in power right now.

I think, I mean, I've seen Democrats be very strong

in condemnation of this war and saying from the very beginning, I certainly have.