📰 For Post-9/11 Vets, Iran Strikes Feel Like a Familiar Mistake

💭 “It started like this last time.”

— Zachary Hubbard, Iraq veteran

📊 Déjà Vu in Uniform
– When the news of U.S. airstrikes on Iran hit, veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars felt a chill of recognition.
– Support for hitting Iran’s nuclear sites is widespread among those who served — but so is deep skepticism.
– Many veterans say they’ve seen this movie before: a clear objective, a fuzzy strategy, and no exit plan.

💼 Trump’s War Powers Test
– Trump’s team skipped Congress — again. That’s exactly what veterans' groups like Concerned Veterans for America warned against.

– “There is no standing authorization for war with Iran,”

CVA said before the strikes.
– Now they’re using the moment to push for a reset: tighter war powers laws and a rollback of the post-9/11 AUMFs that fueled two decades of conflict.

📋 Veterans in the Arena
– In Congress, veteran lawmakers across party lines are demanding oversight.
– Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA):

“We’ll be paying for the Middle Eastern wars for as long as my generation is alive.”

– Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT), former SEAL:

“This isn’t starting a war, this is ending one.”

– The divide reflects not partisanship, but exhaustion — and a sense of betrayal.

🤔 The Bigger Question
If the generation that fought the last war is warning about the next one — who’s really listening?

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