Gallego on Israel allegedly leading Iran operation: 'An absolute abdication of leadership' [View all]
Source: The Hill
03/03/26 4:16 PM ET
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) slammed Israel allegedly leading the recent U.S. operation in Iran, calling it “an absolute abdication of leadership.”
“We lost six men and women so far, and I’m not sure there was, what kind of preplanning and planning was actually created in enough time to actually be able to even execute this correctly. Like, right now I’m hearing that our stockpiles are running low, and it takes forever for us to redo and rearm ourselves, all because Israel wanted to take a chance at the fact that, you know, Iran was weak, and we just had to follow them through,” Gallego, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, said on a Tuesday episode of “Pod Save America.”
“If this is actually what happened, this is what Marco Rubio just said to everybody, that is an absolute abdication of leadership by [President] Trump, and by everybody in his Cabinet, the fact that we were basically pushed into the war by Israel,” Gallego, whose name has been floated as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, added.
On Monday, top Democratic and Republican lawmakers said that the Trump administration’s decision to launch bombing and missile strikes in Iran last weekend was mostly reliant on an Israeli plan to attack Iran with or without U.S. support.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5765492-gallego-criticizes-trump-israel-iran/
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