‘We Shot Our Wad!’ James Carville Unloads on Trump Over Iran War in Fiery Rant from Bed

The United States has “shot our wad” when it comes to the war in Iran, James Carville said Wednesday.

“We have, by all accounts, bus counts, inventories, everything else, our munition supply—that’s ammo, okay—ordinance is dangerously, dangerously low,” Carville explained. “All right, he shot our wad. Yeah, we shot our wad.”

Carville continued:

You understand what happened? That’s what the President of the United States did … Then we come to the point where we’re over deployed, parents of sailors on the Abraham Lincoln are begging their Congressmen to look at what’s going on. Basically, conditions aboard our aircraft carriers come almost in half. This is the United States of America, the most powerful person, we have 11 aircraft carriers. I don’t think China has one.

We can’t get them deployed in where they’re totally combat ready as they should be. That the parents are calling in. Now we have a story and true story, is the brass is asking the troops for any idea how to beat Iran. Yeah, you heard that right. The senior military people are going to sergeants and saying, ‘You got any idea how we can do this battle? Because the shit ain’t working right now’. We are in the middle of losing a war.

The only way to deal with that is to acknowledge it. That’s what this guy has done to us. We’ve shot our wad. Our munition supply is down to dangerously, hyper-dangerously low levels. Our carriers and sailors are horrifically over deployed, and the brass, we’ve gone from General [Chris] Donahue, maybe the best soldier of the 21st century, to they appointed some some guy to be Chief of Staff for the Army, and the Republicans are going, ‘Wait, this guy is not even competent enough to do this’.

This is how — we don’t realize that we are in the middle of losing a war with a depleted military, with a increasingly incompetent command structure, then we’re missing the whole point, and we got to be honest with ourselves. We really do. We’re not honest with ourselves. We shot our wad.”

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