Saturday, August 23, 2025

Guardian: "Hegseth fires top US general after Iran assessment that angered Trump -- Jeffrey Kruse ousted as head of DIA, which said US strikes had set back Tehran nuclear program only a few months"

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 Previously he fired the labor statistician who reported jobs slumping. Now the DIA head. The general tasked with supoervision of collecting and honestly analyzing military information.

Fired because Trump prefered "obliterated" to the truth - a months-long interruption.

What will happen is they will tell him what he wants to hear, rather than the truth.

He will at some point get a report he can tout, and the world's reaction will be, "You fire those who tell the truth and that leaves those who figure to tell you what you want to hear, and you tap-dance over the lies."

This man fears the truth more than he fears false news leading to bad policy decisionmaking. So, yes, the deportations are going as good as Stephen Miller will say they are, and would be even better if more ICE thugs were financed, hired and trained to Miller ways and means."

Things could get that false. That ugly. That phony.

Killing messengers will have the message become "Great Threads you're wearing, sir,"when he shows up in public butt naked. That is a strange and dangerous way to run a nation with a big army.