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Pete Hegseth would have us believe that two fully loaded C-130's were dispatched to retrieve one missing pilot and that those same planes had to be scuttled because they got 'stuck in the mud'. I, for one, believe that the people deserve a better class of liar.
What is the name of the alleged pilot?
 
When downed Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady was rescued in Bosnia in 1995, the entire world knew his name in a matter of minutes.

In the same breath that Trump is telling European countries that the closed Hormuz Strait is their problem to solve – despite the fact that he created it, Trump is also quietly asking European countries if he can borrow their Patriot missile batteries. "Just for a minute", I'm sure.

Pfizer has cancelled its Comirnaty clinical trials for adults aged 50 - 64 due to lack of interest by participants.

Please, let's waste a few billion more dollars

Some folks are upset that a tin can full of hairless apes launched in the general direction of the moon isn't getting enough press.
Maybe folks are tired of (tax payer funded) pointless sequels and remakes.

Been there, done that. Nobody cares about the T-shirt.

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Iran took out a $500M AWACS plane (1 of 16 worldwide) with a $10,000 missile/drone – not to mention the billion-dollar radar they disabled previously.

Seventy years and the United States is still getting its butt kicked by asymmetric warfare.

It's curious that every time we have a "war for oil" the cost of gas actually goes up.
 
It's also curious that Trubio is running the neocon playbook, but neither is a neocon, which suggests it was never the neocons calling the shots.

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