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Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”[6]
The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East[6]
The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.
Amid a fragile ceasefire in the U.S. war on Iran, the Pentagon is playing a numbers game with American casualty statistics, adding and subtracting from the count as questions about the human toll mount.
On the day the ceasefire between the Trump administration and Iran took effect, the tally of U.S. dead and wounded was 385. Despite a pause in hostilities, the number had slowly risen to 428 on Monday, according to Pentagon statistics. Yet on Tuesday, the number of wounded-in-action troops declined by 15 troops without public comment from the War Department, dropping the total to 413. The count held steady on Wednesday, except for one public War Department tally that put the “grand total” of wounded and dead at 411.
The casualty conundrum came as President Donald Trump extended the truce with Iran on Tuesday just hours before it was set to expire.
Two Pentagon spokespersons said they were unable to field questions on the 15 casualties disappeared by the War Department on Tuesday, claiming only the “duty officer” could answer the question but that person was not at their desk. “As soon as the duty officer comes back to their desk, I can get this to them,” said one of them.
A day, and multiple follow-ups, later, The Intercept has yet to receive an explanation of why 15 wounded personnel were scrubbed from the War Department’s casualty rolls.
Whatever the actual number, the Pentagon’s official tally of dead and wounded military personnel is a gross undercount, stemming from what one U.S. government official has called a “casualty cover-up.” The Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, which tracks “deceased, wounded, ill or injured” service members for Congress and the president, is missing hundreds of known casualties.
“These numbers, it is obvious, are important. That they don’t want the public to have them says something,” the official said. “That’s the definition of a cover-up.”
The Intercept spoke with two people who used to work on DCAS who said that there was historically very little lag between a casualty occurring in the field and its inclusion in the system. “We got it very quickly. We could report the number of casualties very fast,” Joan Crenshaw, who worked on DCAS during the war on terror, told The Intercept, noting that data was refreshed daily.
The Office of the Secretary of War did not reply to questions about the slow accumulation of casualties over two weeks or the reason the number of those wounded-in-action has increased by 43, or 28, or 26 since the cessation of hostilities on April 8.
6. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/22/iran-war-military-casualties-wounded/
In this land of upside down many folks seem to be going along with the idea that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is one of Trump’s war goals, BUT it was open before Trump attacked Iran and only closed in response to the attack. Along with that backward thinking, Trump also shifted the power dynamic in Iran’s’ favor to some degree by referring to the Strait of Hormuz as the “Strait of Iran”. (And people are still listening to him @#*&~!)
Let’s remember, it was the idiot in our White House who set this chaos in motion in 2018 when he unilaterally reneged on the Iranian deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that 6 countries in addition to Iran agreed to, which they spent approximately 20 months formulating after years of disagreement.
Despite this enabling by Trump, experts say “Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb”.[5]
After 6 bankruptcies, Trump has finally found a way to become a billionaire. – War for profit!!!
When Trump says it’s “not possible” for the federal government to fund Medicare, Medicaid, and childcare, what he’s telling us is: There are plenty of U.S. tax dollars to go to big donors, just no money for regular people, i.e., the taxpayers.
“We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care.”
Lockheed Martin’s CEO recently told investors that the Trump administration has created a “golden opportunity” for the company.
Weapons industry PACs have already spent $4.7 million in political donations this year to keep the cycle of lucrative Pentagon contracts flowing.[1]
In addition to a $1.5 TRILLION Pentagon topline, Trump is proposing cutting $73 billion from key housing, health, and education programs to give big donors what they’ve paid for. That’s things like:
• Wasting more than $25 BILLION in Trump’s illegal war on Iran.[2]
• $4.7 BILLION for lawless killings in Venezuela and off the coasts of South America.[3]
• A $52 MILLION vanity-driven “Department of War” rebrand.[4]
1. The Guardian, “Lockheed Martin CEO sees Trump’s Pentagon as ‘golden opportunity’ for growth”
2. Reuters, “US war in Iran has cost $25 billion so far, says Pentagon official”
3. The Watson School of International Affairs, “Budgetary Costs of U.S. Military Operations in Venezuela, the Caribbean, and the Eastern Pacific”
4. The Hill, “Pentagon asks Congress to codify ‘Department of War’ with $52 million price tag”
5. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran-was-nowhere-close-to-a-nuclear-bomb-experts-say/
Rural Voters Will Pay for this War[7]
[Trump’s Easter Budget Proposal] fully eliminates $82 million in rural small business loans. It cuts $510 million from agricultural research and farmer grants, wipes out $61 million in farmer and food market support, and slashes $309 million from small business development programs.
It cuts another $158 million from SBA loans and the $449 million in economic development grants for communities, schools, and tribes is completely wiped out.
These federal programs exist because private lenders have never been excited about financing small agricultural operations in rural counties. The profit margins are too thin, the collateral is too uncertain, and the loan amounts are too small for big banks to bother with.
…if this moment doesn’t clarify the stakes, nothing ever will. The President of the United States stood in a room full of rich people on Easter and told them that your daycare, your healthcare, and your heating assistance are less important than his profitable war.
Read the full story…
7.https://open.substack.com/pub/zaceckstein/p/rural-voters-will-pay-for-this-war?r=6kxblo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Every member of the House is on the ballot. A third of the Senate is on the ballot. If your representative can’t stand up and loudly advocate for your community against a budget that would gut everything it depends on, then it’s time to find someone who can.
– HELP REGISTER OTHERS TO VOTE, NOW!
& MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE BEFORE:
– PRIMARY ELECTION DAY AUG. 4th 2026
– GENERAL ELECTION DAY NOV. 3rd 2026
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