Pentagon Pete Shamelessly Tries to Hide Trump’s War Casualties

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The Pentagon has quietly cooked up a way to obscure the grim human cost of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

The Pentagon sparked outrage when it removed the names of four U.S. service members killed in Iranian strikes last week, along with dozens of wounded troops, from its https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/conflictCasualties/oo/byCategory" rel="" target="_self" title="https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/conflictCasualties/oo/byCategory">war casualty database.

Pentagon spokesmen blamed the missing records on “temporary data disruptions” and suggested they would be quickly fixed.

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