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The Defense Department's supplemental request for the 2026 Iran war, made without consulting Congress. John Kiriakou's contribution is his verdict on the Republicans who dropped their objections on the grounds that wartime is no time for questions: a bunch of cowards.
The two hundred billion dollar war request was the Defense Department’s supplemental funding request for the 2026 Iran war, submitted without Congress having been consulted about the war itself.
John Kiriakou’s interest was in how quickly congressional resistance collapsed. The hardcore Republicans, he noted, had begun saying “we don’t want to put our war fighters in harm’s way, so now’s not the time to be asking questions.” His assessment of that position was three words: “Bunch of cowards.”[1]
Burden sharing
The scale was put to him as exceeding the entire cost of the Gulf War even after adjusting for inflation, and he agreed.[2] What the comparison brought to mind was the financing arrangement of the earlier war, which he described as “that thing called burden sharing, where we actually made the Kuwaitis pay for everything” — that is, “pay for the cost of their own liberation.”[2]
He recalled that the same idea had been floated for Iraq, with a dry note on the outcome: “but I don’t know how that worked out.”[2] On whether Congress would pay up anyway, he was not optimistic — “Congress is a bunch of lickspittles, but we’ll see what happens.”[2]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
