No press briefing has been held for months, as the defence department belatedly or inaccurately releases figures The Pentagon is taking a “shameful approach” to releasing information about US casualties in the Iran war, Leon Panetta, a former defence secretary and CIA director, has told the Guardian. The defence department has not held a press briefing for two-and-a-half months. Officials have faced accusations that they are engaged in a cover-up designed to hide the true cost of Donald Trump’s war of choic...
‘Shameful’: Pentagon accused of cover-up over US military casualties in Iran war
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/pentagon-iran-war-casualties-cover-up
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 45d
You mean a cover up like the 40's where they protected nazi and Japanese war criminals, and gave them a new life after committing the worst crimes imaginable?
Or a cover up like the 50's where they overthrew democratically elected governments in the middle east and South America?
Or a cover up like the 60's where they mass murdered millions of south east asian peasants trying to regain control of Frances colonial empire?
Or a cover up like the 70's where they trafficked drugs from South America to finance civil wars that killed hundreds of thousands?
Or a cover up like the 80's where they supplied WMD's to Iraq and Iran, also financed by trafficking drugs, and trained amateur Islamic terrorists to go professional like the CIA?
Or a cover up like the 90's where they started middle eastern wars that killed millions for American oil companies and the MIC?
Or a cover up like 00's, where they waged a war on terror to distract from the fact the Islamic terrorists they trained murdered their own civilians, and also killed millions for American oil companies and the MIC?
Or a cover up like the 10's where they let a pedophile intelligence operative become president?
Or a cover up like the 20's, where they covered up the pedophile ethnostate terrorist genocide until they'd brainwashed enough morons to complete the coup?
I am shocked and horrified! Remember when we were the goodies... almost a century ago... in that brief moment in the 1940's between ignoring the Nazis genocide for over a decade, and protecting the Nazis worst war criminals?
skvlp@lemmy.wtf · 11 pts · 45d
It’s fascinating how the USA has been able to dictate how they should be viewed as the good guys while the the rest of the west has been sheep-flocking along.
Today@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 45d
Lie about the past. Lie about the present. Lie about the future.