US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light
Pete Hegseth on Friday again claimed the US military campaign against Iran has been an unprecedented success, using a Pentagon press conference to accuse journalists of downplaying Washington’s supposed gains on the battlefield.
Speaking alongside the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, the US defense secretary claimed Iran had been left without a functioning air force, navy or missile defense network after 13 days of strikes, and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.
“The United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before,” Hegseth told reporters.
I was thinking about this on the drive home and needed to log in to actually share this bit of craziness.
One of the excuses that they’re using for bombing these school kids is to say that their intel on the area was about ten years out-of-date. Which is funny, because ten years ago was Trump’s first term, and a massive data breach happened around that time that cost U.S. intelligence agencies a huge number of agents.
So, no matter how you slice it, this is on the Trump administration for messing up things he’s too stupid to understand. It takes time to build up assets who can provide information on any given area. It’s possible that there was a school there specifically because they knew the location was compromised.
And even if you want to handwave that data breach as not Trump’s fault, (ignoring the fact that he starting this war). He cut more intelligence jobs when he got into office last year. Who knows what USAID was doing, Who knows what paper projects he cut that had aid in the area or fronts for CIA opperations. His military didn’t have current data on the region becuase everything he has done has fucked up opperations for his military.
Seriously. These fuckers are complicit. How did we have the intelligence of where the Iranian leadership was but not that the school and clinic next to it were located… like why and how? There is no excuse. Tulsi Gabbard… our Intelligence Secretary needs to be fired now.
why don’t you like my dumb ideas?
The fucking drunk reject is babbling again.
Hey Pete, most sane people don’t think war is good.
For anyone that thinks 9/11 was an inside job, why didn’t they do another for Trump?
Bush IICheney at least knew to wait for a tragedy to stage an illegal war. Hegseth here can’t fathom why he can’t garner the same sort of support.well, he is a well known rapist and prick and not very smart.
I think 9/11 was incompetence, not an inside job. With that out of the way, I have heard theories that the FBI warning of Iranian drones attempting to bomb California might be an inside job attempt.
Singling out CNN by name, Hegseth said: “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”
This fuckin guy just comes right out and says it…
wp:David Ellison#Personal life
(my bold)
Ellison and his father are close associates of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[6] His father’s first wife has described Larry as “an ardent Zionist” and he hosted the prime minister on his Hawaiian island in 2021.
Too big to fail is ALSO too big to care.
Also also too big to recover from a fall from a great height.
Has Iran even said thank you?
Did they even wear a suite?
Or even just a single room?
Yes… But it was tan.
Let’s hear it for America’s Suitehearts!
“How dare you peasants not praise me when we bombed a school then bombed it again to make sure! We fuck kids one way or another!”
That’s what that shitiot sounds like.
Fuck off Kegsbreath, you worthless pedo-protector.
Yeah, this is a war they can’t sell.
Pete Hegseth is a fucking pussy.
Those suit coats make him look like a used car salesman
Used car salesmen have more integrity
hes a foxs friend weekend host, not even good one lol. Hes is “FOX’s seat warmer on the weekends” unlike “tucker, INGHRAM, or even watters ont he weekdays which is primetime tv”, basically fox’s DEI hire.
If one is in support of old party politics around this administration, how is that any different? Seems like the right uniform to wear, all things considered.
:: slaps roof of pentagon :: You can fit so many grifts and distractions in this baby.
A success at …what? No goal was ever provided. He caused a lot of damage, killed a lot of people. Iranian conservative religious government (as well as USA’s) is still in power. Iranian nuclear capability (so far, none) hasn’t changed.
And a lot of us are still demanding release of ALL unredacted Trump-Epstein Files.
Success at distracting from the Epstein files
Only corp-owned media. I still see a lot of people talking about the Epstein files and how this war is meant to distract from them.
also from the shutdown right now, which MSM isnt talking about due to iran war.
“Kiff come hold up the flag, and wavy it a little for God’s sake”
“That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing.”
Ughh…
I thought it was Putin who sends wave after wave until the kill limit is reached.
Apparently, the US is preparing to send 5k marines to Iran.
I just do not believe draft dodgers should be allowed to send enlisted into warzones.
