Is it any surprise the ragtag outfit on the Pentagon can’t go an audit if their lives relied on it?
The Division of Protection admitted that they’ve been offering the media with an incorrect troop rely in Syria for months, indicating the quantity is definitely greater than twice the knowledge they’d been publicly acknowledging.
And that’s not even the worst half.
“We have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria,” Pentagon Press Secretary Air Drive Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder informed reporters on Thursday.
“In light of the situation in Syria, and in significant interest, we’ve recently learned that those numbers were higher.”
Wait, what? The Pentagon simply all of a sudden “learned” that the Pentagon despatched extra troops? After asking the Pentagon about it months later?
Jiminy flippin’ Christmas. Who’s operating the place?
HOLY COW!🤯The Pentagon simply admitted that they had no concept what number of American troopers had been in Syria.
“We have been briefing you that there are approximately 900 US troops in Syria.”
“I learned today that in fact there are approximately 2,000 US troops in Syria.”
INSANITY! pic.twitter.com/oWh8Grt2YO
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 19, 2024
Not The First Time The Pentagon Fudged Troop Numbers
It’d be good to assume that President-elect Donald Trump’s return as Commander-in-Chief would curb this sort of habits, however he’s bought plenty of cleansing home to do on the DOD.
Army officers flat-out admitted to repeatedly mendacity to Trump all through his first time period in regards to the variety of boots on the bottom in Syria.
“America’s top envoy to the multinational military coalition to defeat ISIS claimed in a recent interview that he routinely lied to senior government officials about U.S. troops levels in Syria,” Process & Function reported in 2020.
Then-diplomat Jim Jeffrey admitted the true variety of U.S. troops in Syria was “a lot more” than what Trump had requested, and he mentioned the division was “always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there.”
Subordinates mendacity to the Commander-in-Chief – after which bragging about it with no penalties. And there are folks on the market who say the Deep State “isn’t real.” Please.
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Do They Nonetheless Serve The Pursuits Of The American Individuals?
Jeffrey was amongst 50 Republican nationwide safety officers who, previous to the 2016 election, signed a letter stating Trump was not “qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief” and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
He in some way bought appointed as United States Particular Consultant for Syria Engagement in 2018 and a yr later as Particular Presidential Envoy for the International Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The letter flat-out admitted he was certainly one of many within the intelligence and safety neighborhood who would defy him if, as he felt, Trump overstepped his bounds.
And the brass on the Pentagon are nonetheless admitting they misinform the American folks in regards to the variety of troops abroad – er, excuse me, they didn’t lie – they apparently simply “didn’t know” that they themselves greater than doubled troop numbers to an energetic, undeclared struggle zone.
Bear in mind when Vice President Kamala Harris used this speaking level throughout her marketing campaign?
“As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century,” she lied.
It’s going to take a Herculean effort by President-elect Trump to revive religion in all aspects of presidency after they’ve been doing it for therefore lengthy.
