Remember how we were told there were “no casualties” in the attack by the Iranians on al-Asad airbase, made in retaliation for Soleimani’s killing? That was from Orange Jebus and Esper.
Psych.
8 US casualties were transported to Landstuhl, Germany for brain injury evaluations (concussion); 3 more to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. Lotta foot-shuffling and excuses boiling out of Central Command; they sent some Captain or something out to take the heat, of course. CNN is being very canny about saying who exactly said it; lots of “a Pentagon official” and “a US military official.” Which is typical CNN. Not to mention typical US Army.
So, two issues here:
1. How did they expect to get away with lying? (I’m not going to ask why they lied; it’s IOTTMCO.)
2. When will the news media wake up and start demanding names?
I’d have put a picture in this but couldn’t find one that wasn’t copyrighted that fit. Imagine that. :P