Hiding From the Reality of trump's Unwanted War

Update: Hello to everyone from Crooks & Liars' Mike's Blog Round-Up! Thanks to Batocchio as always sharing this blog. I should note that since this article posted, the Defense Department did update their casualties report to try and justify what they did (hiding it under a generic "Overseas Operations" tag) as well as expand the number of wounded from Iranian strikes. This is messier than the GOP wants to admit. /rage

As every con artist is a bad liar, the trump administration is trying to hide the reality their war against Iran is getting our troops killed (via Robert Mackey at The Guardian (US)):

The Pentagon’s official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war does not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend, despite the fact that their names were included in a Pentagon press release on the formal transfer of their remains back to the United States on Wednesday.

A review of the current list on the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System website shows that, despite having been last updated on Wednesday, the number of US military personnel killed during Operation Epic Fury, the Pentagon’s name for the US-Israeli war on Iran that Donald Trump launched on 28 February, remains at 14...

According to a New York Times report, the Pentagon website listed 18 American service members as having been killed during the war on Iran on Wednesday, but was changed on Thursday to exclude three service members killed last Friday, Saturday and Sunday as Iran retaliated for new US strikes with an attack on a base used by US forces in Jordan. The list also excluded a fourth soldier who was killed during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone at Erbil airbase in Iraq...

Three military officials told the Times that “one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list … because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April”.

A Pentagon spokesperson disputed that contention, telling the Times that the decreased total of service members killed was due to “temporary data disruptions” that would be quickly fixed.

The Pentagon did not immediately return the Guardian’s request for comment.

trump and his lackeys want to pretend that his "cease-fire" back in April - much like all the other failed "peace deals" - was the end of military operations against Iran... in spite of the reality that we're still essentially fighting the same damn war. This is because trump and crew are avoiding the legal restrictions of the War Powers Act - which requires them to petition Congress for authorization for any prolonged military action - so they can pretend the ongoing war are brand new military actions.

This is insane. The entire goddamn planet knows this is all one big war instigated by trump's ego and fueled by Netanyahu's ambitions. trump is dodging any accountability - anything that should reign in an illegal presidency - and daring the Republicans in Congress to do something to stop him (they won't).

This is why every voter needs to get out the vote this midterms and kick every Republican congresscritter from the House and Senate from office. Elect a Democratic supermajority as best as possible in Congress to bring goddamn trump to heel.

Before he sends more of our troops into harm's way and ignore their deaths like he's doing now.