In the days since the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran, the Trump administration

has given a wide range of reasons why the U.S. is now at war.

Here's President Trump in an early video message on Saturday addressing the Iranian people.

When we are finished, take over your government.

It will be yours to take.

This will be probably your only chance for generations.

By Monday morning, his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was giving a different reason.

This is not a so-called regime-change war, but the regime sure did change.

And the world is better off for it.

Trump's first public comments, not pre-recorded videos on social media, didn't come until two days after the attacks began.

At a White House Medal of Honor ceremony, he listed four objectives.

regime change was not one of them.

First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis

and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make.

Second, we're annihilating their navy.

We've knocked out already ten ships.

They're at the bottom of the sea.

Third, we're ensuring that the world's number

one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon.

I said that from the beginning. They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were in the

road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed

foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue

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