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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLongtime Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr calls out Hegseth's BS:
Longtime Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr calls out Hegseth's BS:
"Close to every member of the press corps you despise has made multiple reporting trips to combat zones, been under fire, some reporters wounded, some killed."
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) 2025-12-02T22:17:33.449Z
Longtime Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr calls out Hegseth's BS:
Alex Horton, one of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story, has been a participant in more violent combat than Pete Hegseth by an order of magnitude.
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) 2025-12-02T21:07:56.330Z
It's not a coincidence that he got the scoop.
MarineCombatEngineer
(17,299 posts)I guess the saying If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit, is the go to with this regime, after all, that's all they've got, bullshit, no brilliance.
ificandream
(11,595 posts)Shellback Squid
(9,838 posts)Safe as Milk
(187 posts)the second strike? No spotted survivors? No second strike. But Hegseth approved the second strike. Obviously, Whiskey Pete is lying to cover his ass.
Grins
(9,171 posts)For When the vile wads of shit say right to your faces:
FUCK YOU, you drunken adulterer! Ive been in more combat situations than you ever have! And that goes for the aging, flatulent, demented, draft-dodging toad sitting next to you!
Just. One. Time. The world would cheer!!!
Maybe it would add spine to the rest of the press corps?
orangecrush
(27,791 posts)BattleRow
(2,066 posts)AdamGG
(1,851 posts)Last edited Tue Dec 2, 2025, 08:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Zero evidence has been presented that any of the nearly 100 people killed so far were smuggling drugs. Even if they were, smuggling drugs is not a capital offense and it doesn't give us the right to blow up random ships in international waters.
I'm all for it if the sadistic murder of survivors at sea creates more pressure on these assholes, but the first shots fired were murder. It's a distinction without a difference whether it was the first shots or second shots. It's all war crimes.
BidenRocks
(2,592 posts)That's the Smoke he's trying to blow up our ass!