And yes, this is a Petey Boy mistake. It’s not a Hegseth mistake. He said something he shouldn’t have in testimony to Congress. It’s a mistake of nearly epic proportions. Okay, not epic, but pretty big nonetheless. It certainly says something about the war with Iran. It’s not good. But then, we knew this was going to be a debacle from the get-go. My compliments to Raw Story:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s damning slip-up during his Congressional testimony last week revealed just how little President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has accomplished, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Glenn Kirschner, a former Department of Justice prosecutor, argued during a new episode of his “Justice Matters” podcast that Hegseth accidentally admitted something important during an exchange with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA).
Hegseth seemed confused as to whether Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “completely obliterated” during a strike on them last year, as he claimed during the hearing, or whether the country still had nuclear capabilities that warranted another strike.
Going by the satellite imagery after the bunker busters hit, the only damage was on the exterior. There didn’t appear to be any collapse, as one would expect if everything had been hit. [Yes, Joseph, please do correct me.] They didn’t work. What actually happened is unknown. This is not something that’s easy to confirm. Iran also had advance warning that the strike might happen because Trump couldn’t keep his mouth shut. The uranium could very well have been moved before then.
Kirschner said that the exchange showed just how little the war in Iran has accomplished, other than killing military troops and raising prices for consumers at home.
“If you have aspirations and ambitions to someday in the future try to develop a nuclear weapon, the threat is not imminent,” Kirschner said.
“So what [Hegseth] did was lie to the American people about the need to go to war against Iran because there was no imminent threat, by [his] own admission.“
Yup, he’s good at the lying, too, usually. We didn’t need to do this. We shouldn’t have done this. Now, as has been stated numerous times, we’re stuck. Add the possibility of Israel pushing Trump to make this more of a mess. There’s no good way out of it, either. It shows that Petey Boy *really* does not belong in that job, because he can’t even keep his lies and his facts straight.
“Really, the only thing [Hegseth] accomplished was getting our service members injured and killed, getting innocent Iranians — including an entire school full of young girls— killed, creating global economic havoc on the energy front, and making it so that Americans can’t afford to fill their gas tanks,” he said.
“That’s all you’ve accomplished.”
WHAM. That’s all that’s been accomplished, indeed. I was going to say closing the Strait of Hormuz, but that was covered under global energy havoc. What a beautiful way to say Trump, Petey Boy, and Israel screwed up, for something that was not nearly as urgent as we were told it was. Regime change, yes. Nukes, not so much. Iran now has us over the proverbial barrel. And again, who will blink first in this stupid, ridiculous war, the US or Iran?
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