Wow, just WOW!

[imanamerican63]

Pee Brain Hegseth claims that one of the father who son killed was killed in the Iran “said to finish this”.

The father pushed back and said it never was true!

Another, walking into a wall and just hope no one else is listening propaganda crap!

They just keep looking for a new lie to run with! I wonder if GOD(Trump) told Pee Brain to say that lie? Trump has always had this lies in his back pocket.

[Hugin]

1. Rah-rahing an unnecessary conflict of choice you started with an assassination is really difficult.

As has been shown a bazillion times throughout human history.

[marble falls]

2. They can tell out and out lies with no repercussions. MAGAs almost never hear about the truth of what they're ...

... spoon fed. If my child was sent there, I'd want no other parent to go through that nightmare and loss.

[Martin Eden]

3. I never thought I would have more contempt for a president and his administration

Than I had for GW Bush and his pack of warmongering neocons.

[MustLoveBeagles]

16. Same here

They were assholes but at least they respected most of the norms.

[Martin Eden]

19. At least they went to Congress for authorization to invade Iraq

Their rationale for that war was built on a systematic campaign of lies, fully exposed here at DU. I will never forgive Bush and his neocons for using the trauma of 9/11 to manipulate the grief, fear, anger, and patriotism of the American people to pursue their delusional ambitions of empire.

I expected Democratic leaders like John Kerry -- who rose to prominence as a veteran against the Vietnam War -- to speak truth to power against launching that disastrous war of choice.

I was heartbroken when Kerry and other Dem leaders like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002. I vowed that none of them would EVER get my vote in a Democratic primary. I held to that vow until 2020, when I believed Joe Biden had the best chance to beat Trump.

[StarryNite]

4. There is no bottom as to how low they will go.

[mercuryblues]

5. They took a man's heroism

And father's grief and turned it into a political circus, sideshow.

There is no low deep enough for these traitors.

[Deuxcents]

8. Agree. Different treatment than Gold Star Parents Kazir and Gazzala Khan received because they got out front

And made their own narrative. The pain these families go thru and then the disrespect this administration is showing is beyond disgusting. I wish they’d get called out called out good. Our military and their sacrifices are not for advertisement or self promotion

[MustLoveBeagles]

18. They're despicable

There's no bottom with them. They'll just keep getting worse.

[58Sunliner]

6. We are long past the point of any truth coming from these lying sociopaths.

Nothing but lies and propaganda now.

[maddiemom]

7. PEA Brain: as in "Brain the size of a Pea" nt

[Seinan Sensei]

13. I'm gonna stick with "Pee Brain"

As in - “Pete, urine over your head”

But your point is well taken.

[mercuryblues]

17. Whereas

Trump is pee brain

[ffr]

9. If only he had a D by his name. The media would tear him apart in minutes.

True.

[Attilatheblond]

10. Hegseth is a dishonest FOX Talker. He can lie on his own, especially to try and fabricate reasons for his actions

Seems likely that a lot of the liars & cheats Trump put in his Cabinet are fine with lying in order to keep Trump off their backs. They are living high off the hog and don't want to lose their cushy jobs.

[GiqueCee]

12. If Trump had said it...

... it would have been a father with tears in his eyes saying, "Sir, please blah, blah, blah!"
These people are beyond despicable. It's almost as if they're trying to out-do each other, and laughing their asses off with each fabrication more cold-hearted, malicious, and deceitful than the last.
They're flooding the zone, as they say, trying to provoke someone into a violent response that would be all they'd need to justify imposing martial law, which the South End of a Northbound Yak has threatened several times, may he choke on a Big Mac.

[Attilatheblond]

22. Yep, thought that too. Without the 'tears in eyes' part, we know Trump didn't say it

[skypilot]

11. He spouted this lie before Donald did.

I can imagine Trump being annoyed that he didn't get to tell it first, in addition to claiming that the father called him "Sir".

[Amaryllis]

14. Source? How about some background so those of us who have no idea what you are talking about can follow?

[Wiz Imp]

15. Not exactly. My understanding is he claimed all of the parents of the dead soldiers told him to finish it.

He didn't explicitly say this man said it. He just implied it by attributing the sentiment to "all" of the parents he talked to. Hegseth definitely lied but he didn't explicitly name this man.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. 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." The father said he appreciated the compassion that Hegseth and Trump showed him during their visit.

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

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive.

“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.

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.

Simmons said he spoke separately to Hegseth and President Donald Trump at Dover and was grateful for the warmth that both men showed him.