George W Bush stood on that aircraft carrier in 2003 and told America the mission was accomplished.
Then 4,400 more Americans died.
Now four more American sons are dead in the Middle East – and the loudest voices calling this what it is aren't Democrats.
Tucker Carlson Breaks With Trump on Operation Epic Fury
Tucker Carlson – a man who was at the White House just last week – went on ABC News Saturday and said the choice to engage in a regime change war for a foreign power was "absolutely disgusting and evil."
That's not a liberal talking.
That's the face of the America First movement telling you something has gone badly wrong.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was even more direct: "We voted for America First and ZERO wars."
She posted rally footage of Trump promising "No More Foreign Wars, No More Regime Change" – speech after speech, stage after stage – and asked the obvious question everyone is now thinking.
Sen. Rand Paul called it unconstitutional and said his oath to the Constitution required him to oppose what he called "another Presidential war."
Rep. Thomas Massie was blunt: "This is not 'America First.'"
Pete Hegseth Confirms Four Americans Killed in Kuwait Strike
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a podium Monday morning and explained how four Americans died in Kuwait.
An Iranian missile – what the military calls a "squirter" – slipped through U.S. air defenses and hit a fortified tactical operations center.
Hegseth said moments like that "only stiffen our resolve."
Trump told NBC News he "expects casualties with something like this" and said the mission is "a noble one."
He also told reporters there will "likely be more" deaths before it ends.
Those families deserved a president who meant it when he said "no more foreign wars."
The Iraq Comparison Is Radioactive for a Reason
Thousand American troops were sacrificed during the Iraq War as explosive devices that shredded up-armored Humvees and that U.S. forces never developed a countermeasure to stop.
America spent 20 years and trillions of dollars in that region.
The promise of Trump – the entire reason millions of conservatives who had never voted before drove to polling stations in 2016 and 2024 – was that the Washington machine that manufactured those forever wars had finally met someone who would say no.
Trump himself ran against Iraq harder than any Republican in history.
Now War Room is calling Operation Epic Fury "an open betrayal" of Trump's base, with one guest saying plainly: "We got here, frankly, at the behest of a foreign power."
That foreign power is Israel.
America First Conservatives Want One Answer From the Trump Administration
Nobody disputes Iran is a dangerous regime.
Nobody disputes Iran has American blood on its hands like in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 servicemembers.
The question isn't whether Iran is bad.
The question is whether American boys should die to install a new Iranian government – while your grocery bill is still crushing you and the border still isn't fully secured.
MTG asked it directly: Will this war lower inflation? Will it make the cost of living affordable?
The answer is no – and if Iranian missiles start mining the Strait of Hormuz, gas prices go through the roof.
Four Americans are already dead, and Trump says there will likely be more.
The architects of the America First movement – Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene – are sounding an alarm that the people who sent Trump to Washington are starting to hear.
The late Charlie Kirk warned about this months before he died, pulling up footage of the Iraq War "zeal" that got America into a "pile of garbage." That footage is circulating again.
The movement that elected Trump specifically to end this pattern is now watching it repeat – and four flag-draped caskets are already headed home to prove it.
Sources:
- Hannah Nightingale, "4 US service members confirmed dead after Iranian strike on fortified tactical operations center in Kuwait," The Post Millennial, March 2, 2026.
- "4 U.S. service members killed in Iranian strike in Kuwait, Pentagon says," CBS News, March 2, 2026.
- "Trump's Iran decision sparks backlash from Tucker Carlson and some MAGA supporters," ABC News, February 28, 2026.
- "Trump's Iran strikes drive a wedge into the 'America First' party," NBC News, February 28, 2026.
- "Why Donald Trump Faces 'Epic Fury' From MAGA Over Iran," Newsweek, February 28, 2026.
- "Charlie Kirk Ripping Iran Regime Change Resurfaces Amid Operation Epic Fury," Newsweek, March 2, 2026.
- "New: Operation Epic Fury Update From Pete Hegseth – 'This Is Not Iraq,'" RedState, March 2, 2026.
