War with Iran

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

So we're paying for Russian diesel as Russia fights against Ukraine and allegedly supplies Iran - the country we're in a war against?

So we're giving direct financial aid to our enemies?

And the amount of diesel in the deal isn't enough to dramatically impact cost to the US?

Wut?

This is what winning looks like.

[tower912]

Russia Putin a lot of time getting DJT on their side.

[Uncle Rico]

Houthi's doing damage in Saudi Arabia again today as Trump's Folly continues

[Jockey]

Pee on some hookers and Putin owns you for life.

Trump can't afford to lose the 5% of magnate that would be offended.

[Pakuni]

Remember when the Secretary of War (0-1) said the media was lying when it reported that there were more troop deaths from the war little diversion than the Pentagon was acknowledging?


Two more service members have died in the Middle East as part of the Iran war than previously acknowledged, according to the Department of Defense. The revised death toll was revealed in updates to the Pentagon's casualty database late on Friday.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-iran-war-death-toll-21/

[Uncle Rico]

Remember when the Secretary of War (0-1) said the media was lying when it reported that there were more troops deaths from the war little diversion than the Pentagon was acknowledging?


Two more service members have died in the Middle East as part of the Iran war than previously acknowledged, according to the Department of Defense. The revised death toll was revealed in updates to the Pentagon's casualty database late on Friday.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-iran-war-death-toll-21/

He needs to be impeached

[MU82]

Houthi's doing damage in Saudi Arabia again today as Trump's Folly continues

Yup - from the NYT:

The Iran-backed Houthi militia attacked an international airport in the Saudi capital on Saturday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 50, according to three officials briefed on the strike, which came as the war between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis sharply escalates.

The strike was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February.

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Captain Bone Spur and his incompetent Fox News war czar are getting our allies killed, too.

[jesmu84]

Remember when the Secretary of War (0-1) said the media was lying when it reported that there were more troop deaths from the war little diversion than the Pentagon was acknowledging?


Two more service members have died in the Middle East as part of the Iran war than previously acknowledged, according to the Department of Defense. The revised death toll was revealed in updates to the Pentagon's casualty database late on Friday.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-iran-war-death-toll-21/

This admin is 100% covering up/hiding the true troop injury/death toll numbers and loss of equipment/base numbers.

The war is already incredibly unpopular. It would be impeachment worthy if all the facts came to light.

[MU82]

From The AP:

The attack — the latest of several in the past week on the airport — is expected to increase Saudi pressure on allies including the United States to provide military support for the kingdom, which has seemingly tried to avoid all-out war with the Houthis.

Shortly after the attack on Saturday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he was evaluating whether the U.S. should join Saudi strikes against the rebels. "We may. We're going to look at it," he said. "We just found out about the recent attack. So we'll make a decision. We move very quickly."

Excellent! We need to be involved in more Middle East wars. And when more of our soldiers die, Captain Bone Spur can lie about it.

[Jockey]

From The AP:

The attack — the latest of several in the past week on the airport — is expected to increase Saudi pressure on allies including the United States to provide military support for the kingdom, which has seemingly tried to avoid all-out war with the Houthis.

Shortly after the attack on Saturday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he was evaluating whether the U.S. should join Saudi strikes against the rebels. "We may. We're going to look at it," he said. "We just found out about the recent attack. So we'll make a decision. We move very quickly."

Excellent! We need to be involved in more Middle East wars. And when more of our soldiers die, Captain Bone Spur can lie about it.

Yeah - but when he surrenders, that's one more war that he will claim to
have stopped.

[pbiflyer]

Pee on some hookers and Putin owns you for life.

Trump can't afford to lose the 5% of magnate that would be offended.

I am not going to standby and let you make false accusations. Trump did not pee on hookers.......... They peed on him.

[Shaka Shart]

Weird coincidence

https://bsky.app/profile/josefoshea.bsky.social/post/3mxlu4wmxq22h

[Uncle Rico]

Weird coincidence

https://bsky.app/profile/josefoshea.bsky.social/post/3mxlu4wmxq22h

Twitter is somehow worse for the world than Rush Limbaugh and Fox News

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Twitter is somehow worse for the world than Rush Limbaugh and Fox News

Limbaugh and Fox merely care(d) about making as much money as possible; Musk wants to reshape the world in his own massively flawed image.

[MU82]

Team Hypocrisy strikes again ...

Scott Bessent said at his confirmation hearing for Treasury secretary in January 2025 that he believed that the sanctions on Russia at the time were not enough and that "the previous administration was worried about raising U.S. energy prices during an election season."

[MU82]

Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/us/politics/pentagon-casualties-iran-war.html?

The Pentagon has again quietly raised the number of U.S. service members killed and wounded during operations related to the Iran war amid widening criticism over the lack of transparency about the conflict's human and operational costs.

The military now is reporting that 21 U.S. service members have been killed, up from 18, and 865 wounded, up by 98 since August.

The changes were posted Friday evening to the Defense Casualty Analysis System website, which offers a detailed breakdown of casualties by branch of service, rank, race and ethnicity.

The cause of the increased casualty numbers is not completely clear, since the hostilities between the United States and Iran have largely been in a lull for many weeks.

"There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude," Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, and Representative Chrissy Houlahan, Democrat of Pennsylvania, said in a joint statement on Friday.

The two House members had demanded an explanation from the Pentagon after the House Armed Services Committee discovered "a discrepancy in the Pentagon's reporting of casualty numbers" and brought it to the White House's attention.

"The failure of Secretary Hegseth to immediately take ownership of the problem also does a grave disservice to the men and women putting their lives on the line in service to our country," they added.

The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has deliberately withheld casualty numbers from the public, while also attacking reporters for publishing information on them.

[jesmu84]

Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/us/politics/pentagon-casualties-iran-war.html?

The Pentagon has again quietly raised the number of U.S. service members killed and wounded during operations related to the Iran war amid widening criticism over the lack of transparency about the conflict's human and operational costs.

The military now is reporting that 21 U.S. service members have been killed, up from 18, and 865 wounded, up by 98 since August.

The changes were posted Friday evening to the Defense Casualty Analysis System website, which offers a detailed breakdown of casualties by branch of service, rank, race and ethnicity.

The cause of the increased casualty numbers is not completely clear, since the hostilities between the United States and Iran have largely been in a lull for many weeks.

"There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude," Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, and Representative Chrissy Houlahan, Democrat of Pennsylvania, said in a joint statement on Friday.

The two House members had demanded an explanation from the Pentagon after the House Armed Services Committee discovered "a discrepancy in the Pentagon's reporting of casualty numbers" and brought it to the White House's attention.

"The failure of Secretary Hegseth to immediately take ownership of the problem also does a grave disservice to the men and women putting their lives on the line in service to our country," they added.

The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has deliberately withheld casualty numbers from the public, while also attacking reporters for publishing information on them.

This admin is 100% covering up/hiding the true troop injury/death toll numbers and loss of equipment/base numbers.

The war is already incredibly unpopular. It would be impeachment worthy if all the facts came to light.

[MU82]

It's already impeachment worthy.

[MU82]

From the WSJ:

Two Emirati cargo ships sunk near the Strait of Hormuz as Iran ramps up its attacks.
 
The strikes came as the U.S. military has been successfully shepherding more Gulf oil through the strait while bottling up Iranian oil exports with a naval blockade and sanctions. While Iran has repeatedly increased its attacks over the course of the war to try to disrupt the U.S. operation, it is rare that its attacks result in ships being sunk. Vessel attacks around the strait reached a wartime high last week with 12 attacks on commercial vessels, according to Windward AI.

[Uncle Rico]

For the it's just a few pennies crowd

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.t02.htm

[MU82]

For the it's just a few pennies crowd

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.t02.htm

Promises made, promises kept ...

"Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods." - Aug. 9, 2024

"Energy is going to bring us back. That means we're going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon." - Sept. 5, 2024

"Reducing mortgage rates is a big factor. We're going to get them back down to, we think, 3 percent, maybe even lower than that, saving the average homebuyer thousands of dollars per year." - Sept. 5, 2024

"Costs were going to go way up, and that's what happened, and now I'm bringing them way down on health care and everything else." - State of the Union address, Feb. 24, 2026

"You don't have to send your kids out to war, have your kid blown up for a country that you've never heard of and that doesn't want anything to do with you anyway. But I will not send you to fight and die in a foolish, never-ending foreign war." - Oct. 5, 2024

"They said: 'He will start a war.' I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars." - Nov. 6, 2024

[TallTitan34]

Promises made, promises kept ...

"Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods." - Aug. 9, 2024

"Energy is going to bring us back. That means we're going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon." - Sept. 5, 2024

"Reducing mortgage rates is a big factor. We're going to get them back down to, we think, 3 percent, maybe even lower than that, saving the average homebuyer thousands of dollars per year." - Sept. 5, 2024

"Costs were going to go way up, and that's what happened, and now I'm bringing them way down on health care and everything else." - State of the Union address, Feb. 24, 2026

"You don't have to send your kids out to war, have your kid blown up for a country that you've never heard of and that doesn't want anything to do with you anyway. But I will not send you to fight and die in a foolish, never-ending foreign war." - Oct. 5, 2024

"They said: 'He will start a war.' I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars." - Nov. 6, 2024

"I've never heard of Project 2025."

[tower912]

Here's to more secrets.