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Iran FIRES on Oil Tanker-Hormuz Reopening Collapses!! · Combat Veteran News

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We all know that friend who's got grand
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plans of financial success. He's got a
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spreadsheet where he's going to save
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like 80% of his income for the next six
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years and then retire to Costa Rica or
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something. It seems like a halfbaked
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scheme with obvious problems that anyone
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who's lived in the real world should be
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able to see. That's also true of the
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White House's plan to reopen the
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straight of Hormuz. Literally within the
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document were contradictions showing
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that it wasn't going to be possible.
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Well, that seems to have been proven
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correct as the shooting is back in
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Hormuz. Let's take a look. So, in the
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last 24 hours, there have been a number
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of incidents that indicate that the
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straight of Hormuz is well not really
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all that open. Three hours ago, the UAE
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had put out a notice that there was a
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potential missile threat facing the Gulf
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country. Uh but
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that's not all. In fact, uh a day ago,
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an Iranian attack targeted a Singaporean
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cargo ship that was attempting to
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transit the straight while not using
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Iran's designated lanes. Now, this is a
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classic protection racket type of move
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where you say, "Listen, our sea lane
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protects you from hazards like mines,
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but also the hazard is us," which is
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pretty funny.
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Now, this strike uh seems to have hit a
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cargo vessel on the starboard side. No
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one was killed, but no one well needed
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to be killed for this to achieve its
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effect because we can see the effect
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it's had right here. The war risk
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insurance has spiked and is now extreme
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something like 13 times its normal rate.
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Now I want to point out before this
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strike the straight of hormones was
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actually open. In the last 24 hours
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there had been about 78 ships
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transiting. Uh very few of them were
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uh oil ships. But right now since that
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strike that number has dropped to to
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just five in the last so in the last 24
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hours you've seen actually a normal
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level of transit but that has simply
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dropped to nothing
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and you're seeing instead there's an
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increase now in ships waiting to transit
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the straight. A huge huge problem. I I
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don't know what else to tell you. You
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can also see the price of oil though
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bizarrely continues to drop. Somehow
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deciding that well we can just pretend
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pretending the crisis is over is just as
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effective as actually uh as actually
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being over. Right? They claim the price
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here is because Saudi Arabia was loading
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up some tankers at its terminal. Um but
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again given that that vessels are again
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taking fire from the Iranians indicates
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pretty clearly that this is a
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showstopper level of problem right
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so there's also bizarrely enough and I
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want to point this out some rumors that
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there might be even more to the story
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here uh that the Singaporean flagged
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vessel they say uh Actually, the side
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that was hit was the side facing Oman,
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implying that whoever fired on that ship
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might not have been the IRGC.
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Now, I'm pretty skeptical because, well,
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ships navigate in all kinds of ways, and
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it's especially in this environment,
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it's not at all clear. You also have, of
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course, drones, which well can fly in
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very strange and unique ways. uh it
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wouldn't be the it wouldn't be even
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mildly surprising if a say missile
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coming down from above was to strike uh
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near the boat or on off to one side. Um
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again, it's just a minor detail that
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could indicate something a little more
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suspicious is going on.
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However, this isn't just the only part
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where we're seeing that the
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administration has been less than
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forthcoming on the truth of what's going
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on because I want to point out just two
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statements here from just a few hours
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ago. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has
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said, "Listen, a Hormos or Hormuz
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tolling scheme set up by Iran charging
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vessels fees would be an unacceptable
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precedent." But Iran actually is
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proposing charging service fees in the
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straight of form moves jointly with Oman
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and other Gulf neighbors estimating that
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the charges could net them $40 billion a
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year.
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So clearly and by the way as we pointed
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out in the peace agreement peace
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agreement absolutely permits Iran to
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charge service fees uh after 60 days. So
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this is just the most cut and dry thing.
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I'm fascinated to see the US pretend
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that the deal they signed contains
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well different provisions than it
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actually says.
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Now, this is just kind of a warm-up for
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things that really bother me. Okay,
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Now, here's something that really
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annoyed me even more because one of the
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US's claims is like, "Yeah, sure, we
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lost the war, but look at how few troops
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we lost. Look at how how low our
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casualties were." Well, it turns out the
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administration was just plain old boring
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lying to us. Why? Because according to
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reports now from CBS that actually
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Pete Heg Secretary Pete Hegath just sort
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of lied about the state of service
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members when he said when asked about
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the toll of the conflict with Iran back
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in March. He told reporters that quote
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almost 90% of the 400 injured American
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service members had sustained minor
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injuries and had since returned to duty.
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Now that's speaking to the press. So he
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communicated to the public something
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simple which is that these wounds were
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minor. Uh a headache, uh a a piece of
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shrapnel, a sprained ankle
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running to a a a shelter. Those are the
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things that return you to duty after a
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couple days. But when CBS actually
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tracked down those wounded soldiers,
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their injuries were anything but
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trivial. They pre they profiled one
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chief warrant officer whose body was
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riddled with shrapnel when an Iranian
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drone hit his workstation in Kuwait. His
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medical records show that he suffered a
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concussion, hearing and vision loss, and
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damage to his lungs. Officially, the
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army says he is not seriously injured.
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Now, this is obviously not true. Uh
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because I don't know what else to tell
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you. If your kid received a concussion,
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hearing and vision loss, and damage to
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their lungs, you would describe them as
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seriously injured, and you would feel
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seriously pissed.
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But somehow, miraculously, the army
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designated him and others not seriously
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injured and even more [ __ ] up. In
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several cases, CBS found that the
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injured service members had been cleared
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for duty and returned to duty. that that
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duty was orders to a specialized
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recovery unit. So, they had been
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returned to duty. Their duty was to go
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back in the hospital for more recovery.
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That is
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disgusting. I I don't know what else to
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tell you.
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A Pentagon spokesman said told CBS News
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that soldiers in recovery units are not
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counted as having returned to duty.
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Well, that's just objectively not true.
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That's just not what Pete Haggath said,
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right? a sergeant first class who
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suffered shrapnel wounds uh and had
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multiple emergency surgeries at Aquadei
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hospital said his wife was told by an
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army officer that the injuries were
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minor. They said quote, "Your husband is
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injured. He has a minor jaw injury and
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he's going to be returned to duty."
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Right? He he himself said that the army
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is lying to try to make things look
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better than they are. And
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again, in a statement to CBS News, the
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Army pushed back against the claim,
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saying military designations as not
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seriously injured and combat casualty
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had specific definitions that were being
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misconstrued by the families. Well,
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here's the problem. Here's the gripe is
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that
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like, okay, citing here's here, citing
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army protocols, the army spokesman
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explained that a soldier is classified
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as seriously injured or very seriously
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injured is someone at risk of dying from
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their wounds within 72 hours.
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That is well and good. But the army,
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believe it or not, is not stupid. Okay?
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And Pete Hegsth is not stupid. One, he
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blatantly was shown to have lied about
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the return to duty status when they lie
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and make the duty status getting PT and
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additional treatment.
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But also,
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the Pentagon knows how to communicate to
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a non-military audience. That is this
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channel. Why do you think I don't use
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acronyms? Why do you think I use clear,
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simple explanations and analogies? It's
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because I understand that I can't code.
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If I speak in militaryisms, it's coded
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and [ __ ] like that happens. Where words
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like serious and not serious,
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they lose their meaning again. Would you
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tell imagine the principal at a school
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telling a a child a parent of a child
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who had these injuries that those
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injuries were not serious? That
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principal would be getting some serious
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injuries. So again, the Pentagon
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spokesman told the American public that
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the American public did not Google Army
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injury classifications. Yeah, I get it.
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If you're in a a a bunker in Eastern
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Ukraine Yeah, exactly. If you're not
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going to die within 72 hours, you
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probably aren't seriously injured. But
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the average person does not grade
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injuries based on
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how how hard it's going to be to get
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them past Iranian drones.
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This is lying. This is lying to the
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public. Using language that reflects
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something that isn't true. So
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this is just right.
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So again this profiles
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the interview the wife actually who said
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quote they the army told me my husband's
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injuries were classified as NSI and they
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described defined it as not seriously
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injured. Quote he was treated and
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returned back to duty. That was a huge
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relief. I think it was maybe the first
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time I took a breath in 24 hours. But
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then on March 3rd, two days later, she
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gets a phone call from her husband who
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said, "Hey, I just spent the night in a
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Kuwaiti hospital."
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He said, quote, "I could hear him
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breathing and he finally said, I'm going
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to be okay." His wife said, "I waited a
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few moments and then asked if he
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returned to duty. It seemed like forever
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before he answered me, he said, I can't
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go back. Not emotionally, but physically
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and also because their position had been
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completely annihilated.
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And we've also talked about the fact, by
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the way, guys, that uh
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also wild that CBS News spoke with other
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survivors of the VA of the blast. This
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is the major strike on a headquarters, a
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military headquarters by an Iranian
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drone.
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That of course there were more there
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were no resources. There were requests
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the requests focused on medical
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personnel as well as the availability of
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medical supplies. This was a failure,
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according to a military spokesman who
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said that it was believed that Master
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Sergeant Nicole Armor, one of the six
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soldiers killed, could have survived her
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wounds had there been a doctor, a fixed
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aid station, or more than one ambulance.
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The soldiers instead trios themselves
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with makeshift bandages, braces, and
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tourniquets. They commandeered civilian
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vehicles to drive the wounded to two
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local Quaiti hospitals.
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Doctors noted the Burman should have
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perhaps stayed longer in the hospital in
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Quu, but the army pulled them out
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because of security concerns, according
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to medical records.
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So again, this is
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just
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uh
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this is just lying. I don't know what
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else to tell you. The army knows how to
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clearly and simply communicate things.
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We're trained extensively on it because
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you're trained that not everyone is from
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your country. Like do you think the
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Afghans knew the injury classification
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scheme? No, of course not. So you had to
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learn how to communicate to them using
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simple, plain, normal language.
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And the other part that is so
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insufferable that really makes me mad
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about this is that well our headquarters
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received had no air defenses, no CRAM,
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no early warning, no medical station,
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right?
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Who do you think got the bulk of US air
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defenses? Who do you think the US put
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their THAD missile systems and Patriot
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missile defense batteries? They put them
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in Israel.
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They put hundreds, dozens and dozens of
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patriots, protected Israeli civilians
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and left American soldiers to [ __ ]
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die. Okay? I don't know what else to
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tell you. If you were mad about
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Benghazi,
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lads, you should be [ __ ] furious
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about this. Okay? You should be
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absolutely livid because this is
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just I I mean beyond unacceptable,
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right?
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Uh
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and yet
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nothing seems to be happening. Nothing's
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going to happen, right? American service
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members again treated as an afterthought
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like cannon fodder.
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While of course President Trump and his
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sons do do the most important things
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which is of course exploit taxpayer
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money to enrich themselves and their
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friends. Anyway guys, thanks to
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Christine, GMAT, Dan, Al, Don, James B,
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Treatum C, as well as all the lieutenant
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folks. We really appreciate you guys and
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we'll see you. Pierce.