Hegseth lied????

 

They'll be court-martialed next.

More US-Israeli war crimes in Iran

 

Iran is not rolling over.

Oh, he's SO close.

UPDATE :04/07/2026

Iran attack, day 3

The war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Iran entered its third day with more Iranian missile attacks directed at Israel and its Arab neighbors as the U.S. military death toll climbed to four. The strikes have also killed at least 11 people in Israel, and the Iranian Red Crescent says 555 people have been killed in Iran.

Kuwait shot down three U.S. F-15s in what CENTCOM calls a "friendly fire incident," but all crewmembers were safe. Smoke rose, meanwhile, from the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait after an apparent Iranian missile strike.

Air travel is snarled as the war forces the closure of key hub airports in the Mideast, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded in the Gulf region — as the U.S. declines to join other countries planning to help evacuate their citizens.

President Trump said Sunday that the joint military operation would continue "until all of our objectives are achieved," and that could be "four weeks or less," but that more American casualties are possible.

[...]

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his administration was coordinating with its international partners to monitor events in Iran, calling it "important that this chance for change for Iran be used properly."

"The Iranian people have long effectively been alone against violence — against the Iranian regime. This regime, which has killed tens of thousands of its own citizens just in recent months, which has always fueled and organized wars in the region, which provided Russia with 'shaheds' [drones] and the technology for their production — this regime has brought this attitude upon itself," Zelenskyy said in a social media post.

"It is important that there be a clear position in support of people and human life," he added, offering his personal thanks to "everyone who is trying to prevent the war from expanding and who is defending against strikes from Iran."

"I also thank everyone who tells Russia — now, based on the experience of the Iranian regime — that justice does come," Zelenskyy said.

[...]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday that the four American service members who were killed over the weekend died when an incoming munition hit a tactical operations center in Kuwait.

"We have incredible air defenders. Every once in a while you might have one, unfortunately we call it a squirter, that makes its way through," he said. "And in that particular case, it happened to hit a tactical operations center that was fortified, but these are powerful weapons."

  CBS

You can just feel the compassion and empathy.  A squirter.

Hegseth was also asked about Mr. Trump's estimate that the conflict could last four to five weeks, and he attacked the reporter who posed the question, claiming it's a "gotcha-type question."

How? A bit touchy, Pete?

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine offered his "deepest and heartfelt condolences" to the families of the four U.S. service members killed during the joint U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran.

"They're heroes and represent the best our nation has to offer," Caine said.

Caine said it would "take some time to achieve" the objectives of the U.S. military operation, and he warned it was likely that more American lives would be lost.

No shit. But they will be a great deal fewer than Iranian civilians.

"Operations will remain active across the theater and across the globe," he said. "Operation Epic Fury stands as a reminder of what the United States military uniquely delivers: the ability to project power on a global scale with speed, surprise, precision and overwhelming force when and where our nation requires it."

Provided friendly fire doesn't continue.

And, the evergreen response Republicans make whenever the US attacks another country is brought to you this time by Representative Keith Self of Texas...

But that's not stopping Trumpists from claiming that very thing on national TV and in social media.

And because he was egged on by his administration lackeys and Netanyahu.

UPDATE 02:31 pm:

I suspect that's the mood in every US agency since Trump got back in the oval.

I think he mostly spends his time scrolling through alt-right social media and watching alt-right TV.

Friendly fire?

UPDATE 03:04 pm:

UPDATE 03/04/2026:

UPDATE 04/09/2026:

And Here Come Some More

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Criminal

I will spare you the pictures, but you can click the above picture for the story, which includes them.  Or the link in the excerpt below:

Animal rights campaigner Esmail Al Misri, who has called for the security firm to be prosecuted, told the Arab Times that 90 more dogs could be killed.

He said workers killed the hounds because they had not been paid for two months after the firm's contract with KNPC ended.

'We know how dogs that are well-fed and well taken care of look. The photos were taken immediately after the incident so we can rule out dehydration as a cause of their sickly state,' Mr Al Misri said, implying they were killed.

  Daily Mail

Irony Is Dead - Part Whatever

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Take Your Sandals, Boys

1,600 US ground troops are already in Iraq, despite the Obama Administration’s claims that there won’t be any ground war in the nation. More or coming to the region very soon.

The Marine Corps has announced a plan to send 2,100 troops to Kuwait as part of the “Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force” for Central Command, to perform assorted “theater sustainment missions.” The exact timing of the deployment is unclear, but will come at some point in FY2015, according to officials.

[...]

Marine officials insisted that the planned deployment actually predates the new US air war in Iraq and Syria.

  Antiwar

Perhaps it was. It might well have been part of the Grand Plan, which has always included Syria.

Less than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks General Wesley Clark was called into the office of a high-level official on duty at the Pentagon. There he was given the agenda spelled out in the reports PNAC, many members of which were now also members of the Bush cabinet (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc.), had been asking of the US government and the military industrial complex.

“The general,” Clark stated during a 2007 book tour, while in the meeting “told me we’ve already made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” A couple months later while meeting with the same general, Clark said he was told the situation was even worse than originally thought and the plan was to actually take down the governments of at least “seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran.”

  Examiner.com

Five years.  We're a little behind schedule.

So, since we aren’t putting any “boots on the ground” in Iraq, are they staying in Kuwait, where they are being sent, or when they cross the border into Iraq, will they change into sandals?