March 07 2026, 08:15 
When asked whether Americans should worry about being attacked on U.S. soil by pro-Iranian forces in retaliation for Donald Trump’s military strikes in the country, Trump replied, “I guess.”
“We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things,” Trump recently told Time magazine. “Like I said, some people will die,” the president added. “When you go to war, some people will die.”
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At least six U.S. soldiers have died since Trump launched his attacks a week ago. Trump and administration officials have said the attacks were necessary to prevent Iran from creating a nuclear weapon (even though the Trump administration said it had previously destroyed the country’s capability of doing so), to prevent Iran from retaliating from a possible Israeli military strike, and to push for regime change in Iran.
Democratic critics have said that Trump launched the war to distract from his lagging poll numbers, inflationary economy, and his repeated mention in the federal investigatory files on his former friend, now deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Reports indicate that the Pentagon is planning for the conflict to drag on until September. The conflict is costing American taxpayers approximately $890 million to over $1 billion per day.
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