Typical Pentagon BS — the Iranians did it, so let's start yet another war

© 2019 Peter Free

 

05 April 2019

 

 

Does the US have a 10,000 person inter-service "division" entirely devoted to coming up with Big Lies?

 

Here's another one — evidently crafted to further the American military industrial complex's wish to start a war with Iran:

 

 

Iran was responsible for the deaths of at least 608 American troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, according to a newly revised casualty estimate produced by the Pentagon.

 

Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook told a State Department press briefing Tuesday that Tehran is to blame for 17 percent of all U.S. service personnel deaths between 2003 and 2011, having supplied weaponry to Shiite militias fighting U.S. occupation.

 

Hook noted that the U.S. figure is in addition to the “thousands” of Iraqi troops and civilians killed in attacks by Iranian proxy forces.

 

The special representative explained that the new numbers are taken from recently declassified U.S. military documents. The numbers are significantly higher than the roughly 500 confirmed deaths attributed to Iran by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford in 2015.

 

© 2019 David Brennan, Iran killed 608 American troops in Iraq War, Pentagon says in revised casualty estimate, Newsweek (04 April 2019)

 

 

Yeah, right

 

Despite war's alleged fog — a war that (not so incidentally) the United States initiated without any sensible reason in Iraq — the Pentagon is suddenly claiming that it knows that Iranians killed 608 American troops.

 

Yes, 608.

 

Not 607. Or maybe 612 to 613.

 

608.

 

17 percent.

 

Not 8 to 14 percent — or maybe 2 to 26 percent with substantial error bars.

 

17 percent.

 

Because everything is so transparently clear in a complicated sectarian self-defense against what were incontrovertibly American aggressors.

 

 

Point two

 

Since when is it an international crime to sell or provide weapons between nations?

 

The United States makes a monumental amount of loot doing this all over the world.

 

And now we're blaming Iran for doing the same thing on a picayune scale?

 

 

Probe this Pentagon nonsense a little deeper

 

Yes, American sheep (we are told), it was the Iranians.

 

We evidently know this because our inferably multi-lingual troops — most of which can barely speak "proper" English — can distinguish Farsi (and Iran's other languages) from among the polyglot of Middle Eastern tongues.

 

Not only that, our highly educated and widely traveled troops and spies can intuit national and terrorist connections amid numerous insurgent groups.

 

We can even tell which weapons came from where and for what reasons.

 

(You remember how competently our spies and analysts did this with regard to Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction.)

 

In short, we Americans are so extremely capable that — while defending ourselves from people determined to kill and expulse us — we have the presence of mind to pay attention to the national and cultural characteristics of our self-defending attackers and their weapons.

 

We are such a magnificently capable people!

 

 

The Goebbels-like duplicity inherent

 

. . . in this Pentagon pronouncement boggles thinking minds.

 

American propagandists stand happily with their Nazi-Stalinist predecessors.

 

 

The moral? — It is impossible to respect high-ranking American leadership

 

A larger, more corrupt and corrupting group of immoral parasites never existed.

 

Paul Tillich's (never properly attributed) line that:

 

 "Every institution is inherently demonic"

 

is epitomized by the United States' military industrial complex and its components.

 

American culture rots from the head down.

 

Y'all self-proclaimed Christians better hope that silence and apathy in the presence of evil is not a punishable sin.