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CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper lost his cool on Tuesday when Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) demanded to know how many more Americans would have to die for Donald Trump’s war with Iran.<\/p>\n

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“I would like to know how many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake,” Moulton said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. “Do you know?”<\/p>\n

Cooper bristled.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s an entirely inappropriate statement from you, sir,” he snapped.<\/p>\n

Moulton \u2014 an Iraq War combat veteran \u2014 wasn’t having it.<\/p>\n

“With all due respect,” he fired back, “it’s not a statement. It’s a question.”<\/p>\n

The blow-up came at the end of a punishing round of questioning over Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-led campaign against Iran that has killed 13 American service members and wounded 381 more while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and gas prices have soared.<\/p>\n

Moulton opened by reaching for the most damning comparison in modern military history.<\/p>\n

“Admiral, you’re familiar with General Westmoreland?” he asked, invoking the Vietnam War commander synonymous with false optimism and catastrophic body counts.<\/p>\n

“I’m very familiar, Congressman,” Cooper replied. “He’s well known for talking about body counts.”<\/p>\n

From there, Moulton walked Cooper through a litany of failures. Why was the strait closed under his watch when it had been open under every previous president? Why was Trump begging China for help to reopen it?<\/p>\n

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Cooper retreated to procedure: “My responsibility as a combatant commander is to lay out all the options and present those to the Secretary and the President. They make policy-level decisions.”<\/p>\n

Moulton turned to regime change \u2014 an operation that swapped an ailing 86-year-old supreme leader for his harder-line son in his 50s.<\/p>\n

“And in case he wasn’t hard-line enough, you killed his immediate family,” Moulton said. “Was that part of the plan?”<\/p>\n

Moulton pushed on \u2014 oil prices up 56%, a president demanding “unconditional surrender” from a country that hasn’t actually surrendered.<\/p>\n

“What’s the plan now to actually win this war?” he asked. “Because it feels like we’re losing.”<\/p>\n

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Cooper held the line. “Congressman, we achieved all our military objectives.”<\/p>\n

That’s when Moulton asked his question \u2014 and Cooper snapped.<\/p>\n