A MAGA congressman offered a muddled defense of President Donald Trump’s troop deployment to the Middle East by arguing that the presence of U.S. soldiers in Iranian territory wouldn’t really constitute “boots on the ground.”
The Pentagon has deployed warships carrying about 2,500 Marines as Trump’s attacks on Iran have ballooned to a wider regional conflict.
During an interview with CNN, Republican Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas said he thought the troops would be used to secure Kharg Island, a strategic terminal about 15 miles off the Iranian coast that handles about 90 percent of the country’s crude oil exports.
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