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WaPo: Pentagon undercounted Iran war deaths; Hegseth calls report "a complete lie"Additional official raises toll to 23 troops plus three contractors
4 Sep 18 7:41 PM · 5d ago · 6 articles · 11 posts · 46 comments · 5 sources · development 4 of 5
A sixth official cited by the Post said 23 service members and three U.S. contractors have been killed in the region since the war began, a higher figure than the initial 22 reported by five officials.
“A sixth official said 23 service members have been killed in the region since the war began, along with three U.S. contractors.”
bettycjung.bsky.social (citing WaPo)
Pete Hegseth U.S. Secretary of Defense
Donald Trump U.S. PresidentThe Washington Post Reporting outletSix unnamed U.S. officials Sources for the report
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by HN Best, 5d ago · also Hindustan Times, Times of Israel, HN Frontpage
2 more headlines
- Is Pentagon hiding actual count of US troops killed in Iran war? Pete Hegseth calls WaPo report ‘a complete lie’ Hindustan Times · 5d ago
- More US troops killed in Iran war than Pentagon has acknowledged — report Times of Israel · 5d ago
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first by Middle East Eye, 5d ago
What people said 24 voices · best of 53 · verbatim
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More U.S. troops have died during the Iran war than publicly disclosed. @washingtonpost.com Exclusive: Five U.S. officials told The Post there have been at least 22 U.S. military fatalities in the war with Iran, four more than the Pentagon has reported in its public database.
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I recently fell in a rabbit hole of YouTube docs about wars from WW2's end till 2000..Most of those wars were mostly caused or perpetuated by the US or USSR not wanting countries to go to the other side.In any video that shows the timeline of any war, there's scenes from the war, then it cuts to photos and scenes of politicians in the "master…
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Trump’s attempts to conceal his failures are prolonging a war that the White House seems determined to lose, and that has killed thousands of people across the region.
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If Congress can get its act together, it can clearly tell this lunatic to fall in line and start performing according to his Job description, otherwise boot him out. But there's no chance they are going to do it.They politicized fallen heroes from the Afghanisation withdrawal for their campaign time during RNC 2024. Current events clearly show…
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More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious evidence of the Trump administration’s ongoing cover-up around disastrous military failures in that conflict.
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> The newspaper also reported, citing another unidentified official, that not all of the undisclosed deaths were directly tied to the months-long conflict but involved US personnel who were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities.If someone dies near a war, but not due to the war, is it really fair to count them as a war fatality?
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U.S. officials say the Trump administration is hiding the real death toll from the war.
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Zero service members died in our just announced de facto annexation of Greenland.
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More: A sixth official said 23 service members have been killed in the region since the war began, along with three U.S. contractors.
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If they are killed by houthi drones and not iranian drones, I would think so.If someone on a military base with no attacks going on, got a heart attack by watching the news, probably not a war fatality.But we don't know, so any concrete speculation is probably not very helpful.
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Still seems low for months of war-not-war with the number of personnel deployed in a theatre far away. Hope it's not so, but providing false favorable stats is this administration's thing.
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And all the republicans will still vote red for the lying, cheating, grifting man.All my life I have had faith in the governments reports and statistics for the most part. This admin has torn everything down and for what?
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But, as in their Covid deaths theory, were these service members in the war or were they just war adjacent?
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Don't worry! Trump has a solution for that!He's gonna change the name of the Strait of Hormuz to "Large of America". And all ships will be able to pass because freedom.Take that Iran!
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Pete's a lying, disrespectful POS: 'More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly' www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... via @washingtonpost.com #veterans @dpounder.bsky.social @fergdawg.bsky.social
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It’s 2006. The President has embroiled us in an unpopular war in the Middle East and has lied about it.It’s 2026. The President has embroiled us in an unpopular war in the Middle East and has lied about it.
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I 100% believe this. On my flight to Dallas this week, there was an honor guard and the transport of a fallen soldier. It was so heartbreaking watching the family receive this soldier’s body. A young woman (presumably wife) was crying with 2 small children.
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now we get to wonder whywe're no strangers to troops dying due to ongoing conflict pretty much everywhereso why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?
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The Washington Post will be next to be ban. How dare them tell America the truth.
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It's routinely written and recounted that for most wars in history more people died from disease than combat. But we still count them all as war deaths.
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So now what? Consequences ? More NOTHING from everyone?
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I will admit that after today's CNN report and subsequent CNN ban, I wondered why he is so annoyed. And now it makes more sense.
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Well wait… are you sure they didn’t die because of complications related to war and not from war itself?.. maybe chemtrails. So sick of this administration.
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"With Covid, not of Covid," but for military casualties. One does see something new every day.
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