Iran War Deaths Suddenly Drop on Pentagon Website

From the article:

"Since the cease-fire collapsed, the Pentagon has provided little information about the American military strategy and has been slow to release information about troops' injuries. The last major Pentagon briefing on the war was in early May."

The Defense Department has said that disclosing Iranian strikes on bases where U.S. troops are housed would compromise operational security.

The Pentagon withheld information about three Iranian strikes last week in Jordan that injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to several U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

After an Iranian strike in Jordan on Friday killed three soldiers, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, acknowledged that the number of U.S. military casualties since July 7 had risen to nearly 100.

Defense Department officials say they are bound by law to report troop deaths, but not injuries. Critics, including Democratic senators, say the Trump administration is obligated to inform the public about the conduct of the war.

Trump really isn't good with numbers - a few suckers zapped here, some more losers blasted there, machts nichts - as long the money keeps rolling in.

And for the edification of any of this creature's apologists, these numbers represent people - so stop helping him ---- all over their memories.

They've been promoted from "suckers" and "losers" to a rounding error.
Embrace it MAGAts, because you sure as hell built it.

The cover of the June 27, 1969 issue of the widely-circulated LIFE Magazine directed readers to a photo feature: "The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week's Toll." Inside, on a series of pages laid out much like a high school yearbook, readers found the names and faces of the 242 US service personnel killed during a one-week period. (See 1960sdaysofrage.wordpress.com)

Those photos really shook-up a lot of readers up about the Vietnam fiasco.

Because the photographs moved beyond lists of names or, worse, columns of numbers by showing faces we instantly knew were something both different and more than numerals or letters. These were clearly the visages of formerly living human beings so recently sacrificed on the altar of what and why. Those photos personified the war in ways that eclipse the power of numbers and names alone.

The regime wants you to put the recent dead and wounded and those yet to come into the blender of historical forgetfulness and flick the switch to "11."

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Not surprisingly, people associated with wars gone off the rails exhibit a strong tendency not to want to talk about the subject, other than by lying. And in a sense Westmoreland was correct: a lowering/breakdown in restrictions provided Americans with a partially open window onto the war they were buying with their votes, treasure, and children's lives. (My only caveat about Westmoreland's observation is the fact efforts to bury information continued, e.g. My Lai. But I get his point.)

Interestingly, the Pentagon's most recent press briefing on Trump's Iran War was on May 5, eleven-and-a-half weeks ago.

The same month - on May 26 - Trump was at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for another one of his "routine checkups," he visited other troops but not the 14 recovering from injuries they've sustained in his war.