Short-Term Excursion

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Members Issues Conference

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Mission Accomplished? The president talked about Iran yesterday in Florida. A lot. But there’s one word he didn’t use once: war.

“I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion,” Donald Trump told House Republicans gathered at his Doral golf club for their annual policy retreat.

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Short-term, you say? Don’t get too excited. Trump told reporters at a press conference right after his address that “we’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.” The war certainly isn’t ending in the next few days, he said.