Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chest-thumping claims about Iran’s losses don’t appear to line up with intelligence assessments.
Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles that could be pulled out of hiding or dug up from underground storage sites, officials familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments revealed to The Wall Street Journal.
The report undercuts the self-proclaimed secretary of war’s claims that Iran’s missile program has been obliterated.
“Their missile program is functionally destroyed, launchers, production facilities, and existing stockpiles depleted and decimated and almost completely ineffective,” Hegseth, 45, told reporters on Wednesday as he asserted that “Iran’s air force has been wiped out.”
U.S. intelligence reports paint a more worrying picture, sources told the Journal.
Though American officials have said that more than half of Iran’s missile launchers have been destroyed, damaged, or trapped underground in the conflict, many of them can still be repaired or pulled out of underground complexes, the outlet reported.
These ‘leaks’ are from Israel, which wants to continue with the bombing.
Formidable_Faux on
I can always tell it’s from the Daily Beast just from the heafline
smurfsundermybed on
I remember when it was just the other side that had a Baghdad Bob.
Efficient-Laugh on
This is fake news.
jotro138 on
China has never had a larger collective erection
Dweidmann on
Pete’s just regurgitate what the orange dick tator tell him to say. Like the rest of the cabine6.
oxymoronian on
It isn’t a lie if you believe it.
Crio121 on
They, he and Trump, really need to learn what “decimate” really means.
camp-mart on
Thanks for posting!
Farm_Professional on
Why do these people not operate from a mode of assuming they’re lying? Pete Cocksbreath lies all day everyday.
black_flag_4ever on
It’s almost like being an alcoholic TV show host on a propaganda channel doesn’t qualify someone to run the military.
Rambler330 on
This administration has always had a difficulty with the proper definition of words.
Yup_Shes_Still_Mad on
It doesn’t matter. The base will never hear it and if they do it’ll be fake news. They know this. So they just say shit
CurrentElectrical736 on
Propaganda is normal in war!
muzitron69 on
Trump and Hegseth obnoxious lies are going to get American soldiers killed (probably already have.) Who would want to risk their life fighting under this administration?
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chest-thumping claims about Iran’s losses don’t appear to line up with intelligence assessments.
Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles that could be pulled out of hiding or dug up from underground storage sites, officials familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments revealed to The Wall Street Journal.
The report undercuts the self-proclaimed secretary of war’s claims that Iran’s missile program has been obliterated.
“Their missile program is functionally destroyed, launchers, production facilities, and existing stockpiles depleted and decimated and almost completely ineffective,” Hegseth, 45, told reporters on Wednesday as he asserted that “Iran’s air force has been wiped out.”
U.S. intelligence reports paint a more worrying picture, sources told the Journal.
Though American officials have said that more than half of Iran’s missile launchers have been destroyed, damaged, or trapped underground in the conflict, many of them can still be repaired or pulled out of underground complexes, the outlet reported.
Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/damning-intel-leak-blows-up-pentagon-petes-depleted-and-decimated-claim/).
Back then this would have been a scandal. Now it’s just Monday.
Pete’s claims were lies.
The U.S. tomahawk missle supply (they cost $2,000,000 each) is being depleted and decimated.
[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-navy-requesting-3-billion-replenish-tomahawk-missiles-used-iran-war](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-navy-requesting-3-billion-replenish-tomahawk-missiles-used-iran-war)
These ‘leaks’ are from Israel, which wants to continue with the bombing.
I can always tell it’s from the Daily Beast just from the heafline
I remember when it was just the other side that had a Baghdad Bob.
This is fake news.
China has never had a larger collective erection
Pete’s just regurgitate what the orange dick tator tell him to say. Like the rest of the cabine6.
It isn’t a lie if you believe it.
They, he and Trump, really need to learn what “decimate” really means.
Thanks for posting!
Why do these people not operate from a mode of assuming they’re lying? Pete Cocksbreath lies all day everyday.
It’s almost like being an alcoholic TV show host on a propaganda channel doesn’t qualify someone to run the military.
This administration has always had a difficulty with the proper definition of words.
It doesn’t matter. The base will never hear it and if they do it’ll be fake news. They know this. So they just say shit
Propaganda is normal in war!
Trump and Hegseth obnoxious lies are going to get American soldiers killed (probably already have.) Who would want to risk their life fighting under this administration?
You don’t say the womanizing drunk liar lies.
Can we stop with the nickname