Hegseth MAD At Media For Covering US Dead

So, let's then uh turn to what I thought was one of the most single disgraceful utterances by a US Secretary of Defense ever. Here is Secretary Hegsath who is chastising the media for covering the deaths of American soldiers and not appropriately cheerleading the war on enough. I couldn't believe it whenever I saw this happen live. Let's take a listen. >> This is what the fake news misses. We've taken control of Iran's airspace and waterways without boots on the ground. We control their fate. But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad, but try for once to report the reality. The terms of this war will be set by us at every step. >> And so he is saying that the fake news does their part by trying to make the president look bad uh because some tragic things happen. Can you imagine a more disgraceful statement where he is chastising us for covering the deaths of American soldiers? American soldiers by the way who it appears were not in a properly fortified tactical operation center who by their own admission. I mean one of these women who was killed in the strike had apparently spoken to her husband according to his own interviews about how she was worried about what was going on. She was working here in the tactical operations center and what they had done is that they were fighting like the last war. So they put up these walls that were around the operation center which were designed for suicide bomb attacks. But anybody who has watched literally anything about the now four-year long war in Ukraine knows that that's not how it was going to come. Any sort of attack, it was going to be by a suicide drone. And that is exactly what happened, which appeared to have a direct strike directly on here, which raises a whole number of questions. Number one, why was there no counter drone stuff that was even prepared? Right now, the US military is scrambling and is going to buy counter drone technology from the Ukrainians. Not sure why we have to buy it since we're the ones who paid for it. But okay. So, we're going to buy all of this counter drone technology stuff from the Ukrainians, which means we didn't do any studying. We actually didn't prepare properly for a lot of the bases. By Donald Trump's own admission, they have said that they were not prepared for some of the strikes that were on the Gulf. So, that means there wasn't an active active planning that happened inside. And now six of these Americans are dead. And what's the worst about it is that they keep saying, "Oh, that's just the first of many to come." They keep saying, "Oh, more casualties. Could be more. I mean, God only knows. Are there more that they haven't told us about? Hope not, right? Uh, having covered this for a long time, usually they just come out within 24 hours. But at the very least, they're expecting more. And the fact that they're expecting and preparing the public for more, and this is the way that they want to cover it is beyond disgraceful. Beyond disgraceful. So, well, let's let's, you know, they don't want us to cover uh apparently these troops cuz it's bad for morale. It's not our job to do morale. That's not our job at all. Let's put let's put some of these up here on the screen. The Pentagon has now IDed six of the soldiers who were killed in the Kuwait attack. All all many of them were attached to this Army Reserve unit out of De Moine, Iowa. And actually from their ranks, you can see that many of these were very senior US Army personnel. But the one that sticks with me is this one, Sergeant Declan Cody. He was 20 years old. He was a student uh in he was a student who was studying information systems who was taking classes online from Kuwait and again a member of the US Army Reserve and I want this also show everybody too these are people who never I mean look they volunteered I'm I'm not stepping away from that but it shows you the problem of our overextended empire is that our bases have to be staffed by US Army reserves because we don't even have enough troops to be able staff all these bases even in a potential active war zone. And here you have a 20-year-old kid who had his entire life ahead of him who was born and I can't I just can't get away from this. Four to five years after 9/11 who just perished in another American war in the Middle East. How does that not break your heart? I've covered so many of these over the years, written obituaries for kids younger than me. I I wrote my first obituary for a kid who was younger than me nine years ago who stepped on an IED in Iraq and knows so many people who were wounded or even families of the people who were killed who were over there. And now we have another one and the Secretary of Defense is telling us that it is basically this is 2002 2000 era BS. Uh freedom isn't free. The only way to support our troops and mourn our debt is to support the war is to support the president. And there is nothing less patriotic actually than that. And we're not falling for this again. Yeah, >> we are not falling for this Again, I just think it's so it's it's not just about disgrace. If if you ask me, there hasn't been enough media coverage actually of these people because we should learn the cost. We talked about the girls, they're dead, okay? Little girls are dead. Who knows who killed them? Uh now these these people, they're dead. I mean, these American soldiers are dead at the decision point of the United States president and of the Israeli president. And their blood, it's on the it's on our leadership. Yeah. And we should be able to say that without being denigrated as cowards or anti, you know, you know, anti-war uh anti-American. It's anti-American to mourn uh the deaths of a 20-year-old kid who who was in Kuwait, right? It's just it really really gets me. >> It reminds so much of how they were trying to during the Iraq War hide the coffins coming home. They didn't want photographs. They didn't want pictures of that cuz yeah, they don't want people to actually grapple with the cost. And you know, uh, the elites of this country, it's not their sons and daughters by and large who go and fight and die in these wars. Baron's not going to be headed over there anytime soon. And they seem to view all of this like it's some kind of game >> or a TV show. Yeah. >> TV show is is I mean, obviously, we have a reality TV president, but Pete Hexath too is primarily a TV personality, and he's a man who is clearly out of his depth, and he knows that. And so he has adopted this persona that he thinks makes him look like a tough guy. And he's adopted these sort of like habits of um of discourse that he's drawn from, you know, what he thinks Trump would say. And Trump's the ultimate, you know, the ultimate daddy figure for the the MAGA, right? And so he thinks that by lashing out at the fake news media, trying to make the president look good, look bad, rather, that he's going to look like a big man. he's going to look like he's doing the right thing here. And you know, I mean, this whole presser where he's talking about we're going to rain down death and destruction, he's playing a character. He's decided he wants to adopt this persona of like a comic book villain. And that's his whole approach to this because he does not know what he's doing. We before this, I mean, at the very beginning of the administration reporting about how the Pentagon is total chaos under him like he has no business being in this position. And what a disgrace that now we have American service members dead. We have Iranian civilians dead. We have people dead throughout the entire region. >> Kuwaiti soldiers who've been killed. Absolutely. Guards, random personnel, airport guys. I mean, >> the Israelis are blowing up the police stations in Iran because they want to fment chaos and and civil war and some sort of uprising. And the president of the United States cannot even give a straight answer about what the hell the goal is and why we're doing it. Just think about that. And you know, I I keep coming back to some of the emails that reveal the way that these people just do not see others below the elite class as being truly human. So they're happy to throw, you know, your sons and daughters into a meat grinder because, you know, for whatever reasons, because Israel pressured us, because I want to look like a big tough guy, because I feel like more of a man when I can send American fighters in potentially to their death. And you know, that's it's sick. It's depraved. And that's exactly what's going on here. I want to call now uh for a video which was put out by the White House where they literally edited war that is currently happening with an intro from a video game just to show you the entertainment value. Let's take a listen. So there you go. They're literally tweeting out that's an actual video released by the White House of the United States of America with the title courtesy of the red, white, and blue country music lyrics and video games. It's not a game. It's not a game to the family of a 20-year-old. It's not a game to a mother of two. And think about, you know, some of these some of these people, they're you read their stories uh in this NBC News article, they're like, "Oh, she loved gardening." You know, and these people are dead. Not to mention some of these girls and others in Iowa. They're mourning them. You know, the the university this kid went to, they're talking about, oh, he was so great and loved his work. Is it his father and sister talking about this? His sister was talking about how how upset she was thinking about how scared he was near the end. People shouldn't have to think that or if their lives are going to be on the line. And everyone's like, "Oh, they volunteered for it." I mean look, yeah, I think they volunteered, you know, with the uh theory, at least I think the theory uh that their lives would not be fodder for video games and for uh you know, egoomaniacal power plays or uh being jerked around Israel or weird religious holy wars. Exactly. And so that is the ultimate, you know, screw you, I think, to an all volunteer uh military force. Yeah. Yeah. And and look, the military brass, the chair of the joint chiefs was warning. Like, it's not like they didn't know, right? I mean, we're not rocket scientists over here, and we've been tracking this problem with the the stockpiles of weaponry and interceptors in particular. You know, the this drone technology has been used extensively in Ukraine, these Shahid drones. And so, this was all known. It was all very predictable. And yet, you know, the these uh these individuals, these service members were in completely unprotected in like a triple wide trailer and the US rushes into this thing because of whatever basket of weird reasons, many of which we still don't even know. But with this, yeah, this holy war, you know, justification now increasingly coming out and of course Hexets's got his Crusader cross tattoo, etc., etc. Trump, who knows what's in the Epstein files and what his and the money he's taken from Muriam and what all is going on in the background and he feels like such a big tough guy after Venezuela and all of that fuels now us being pushed into this conflict that the American people do not support. And so, yeah, it's sad. These these individuals trusted the American government to take their lives seriously and to not risk their lives without a good reason. And ultimately, you know, they were betrayed. Yeah. That's the bottom line. >> Exactly. And I don't I think everybody should be able to say that. Hey, if you like that video, hit the like button or leave a comment below. 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