Whiskey Pete Hegseth, the guy who likes to posture as some super warrior – but can’t do his job without his mommywife – doesn’t seem to have the stones to own up to the human costs of the Iran war.
On Friday, The Washington Post broke the news that the Hegseth Pentagon has failed to acknowledge at least four, maybe five more American military deaths as the result of the Iran war. That is according to “six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data,” The Post said. Five of the six counted 22 military fatalities (four more than the 18 in the Pentagon database) while the sixth said the number is 23. So far.
Those officials “expressed frustration” over the Pentagon’s failure to count the deaths in its casualty database properly, The Post said.
“Not all of the undisclosed deaths are directly tied to the conflict,” The Post said. Some “were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities,” a source told the paper.
On top of that, three U.S. contractors based in the region have also died during the war, according to The Post’s sources.
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