Senate Democrats said after receiving a classified briefing from the Trump administration on Tuesday that they’re increasingly concerned about the US-Israeli war on Iran dragging on “forever”—and involving American troops in a ground invasion.

“I am more fearful than ever, after this briefing, that we may be putting boots on the ground,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told reporters, criticizing the Trump administration for not providing the American public with information that was given to senators behind closed doors.

Blumenthal’s warning came a day after Donald Trump publicly declined to rule out a ground invasion of Iran, saying he doesn’t “have the yips with respect to boots on the ground.”

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    So are they going to do anything about it or continue to silently support him?

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      AIPAC donations will determine that they will continue to silently support him. Maybe a few strongly worded letters will be sent.

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    Won’t somebody, anybody, think of the 19 year old high school enlisted grunts who will be forced to micromanage a genocide on the other end of the world?!

    This was supposed to be a long range nation wide massacre! Liberals don’t support Americans coming back in body bags.