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Pentagon ignores widow after dropping husband’s name from soldier casualty list
The State Can Start a War and Still Fail to Count Its DeadPower, Not ConfusionThe source story is simple enough to strip bare: Trump launched the war with Iran, soldiers died, and the Pentagon could not even keep its casualty list aligned with its own press release. That is not a clerical hiccup in any meaningful political sense. It is what institutional carelessness looks like when the people with power treat death as a spreadsheet problem.The Real Decision MakersThe agency here sits at the top. Trump, who unilaterally started the war, owns the political decision that created the deaths in…
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