Smells like evidence that Hegseth plans on using the death of our servicemen to advance the war effort.

[Baitball Blogger]

Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job

Hegseth said "family after family" of service members killed urged the administration to “not stop until the job is done." President Donald Trump made a similar claim earlier this month.

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said.

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One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last week.

Simmons recalled his exchange differently.

“I can’t speak for the other families. When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about,” he told NBC News in an interview Thursday.
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Asked if he said anything to Hegseth or Trump about the need to keep fighting the war, Simmons said, “No, I didn’t say anything along those lines.”


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/father-servicemember-killed-iran-war-never-told-hegseth-finish-the-job-rcna264297

[msongs]

1. the seccdef acts like a sicko whack job IMO

[littlemissmartypants]

7. He's not acting.

[jls4561]

2. Republican Jeebus will forgive your lies if you're killing infidels.

[Skittles]

3. THEY DID THIS SHIT FOR AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ TOO

even when it was THOUSANDS of casualties it was WE CAN'T QUIT NOW BECAUSE THEN THOSE DEATHS WOULD BE FOR NOTHING

[Klarkashton]

4. What do you bet nobody said anything like that.

[vapor2]

5. He never did release the 2nd video of the Venezuela fishing boats

hegsbreath is a very sick vile human being who lacks any regard for human life.

[Bread and Circuses]

6. Send Hegseth and Rubio

[marble falls]

9. How about at least one Trump?

[marble falls]

8. One of the biggest "arguments" to continue in the Nam: "what about those who already died, we need to give ..

... value to their sacrifice!" and the next thing we knew, there were 50,000 dead and 100,000+ wounded.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Yup. I remember.

A time when the Generals were never held accountable for killing young men.

Now, with the whole world turning against us, I hope it will be different.

[marble falls]

13. We have to stop it before it ends us. Israel has a LARGE nuclear arsenal organized in the same Triad as is in the US.

[Grokenstein]

10. Same as it ever was.

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"Gotta shove more meat into the grinder or the other meat will have been ground for nothing" has always been the motto of chickenhawks in the driver's seat.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. After losing a child to the felon's war, why would any parent wish this heartbreak on any other parent??