Hegseth dodges bullet but wants troops to believe they did, too
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Observers are reporting that absent Democrats likely torpedoed Thomas Massie's attempt to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the House last night. The vote to refer his eight articles of impeachment to the judiciary committee for a sure death, passed 211-204.Hegseth and his compadres in the Pentagon are no doubt feeling vindicated since he spent Tuesday morning boasting of his handling of the war policies in Yemen, the Caribbean, Venezuela, and in particular, Iran. In order to do this he had to engage in some serious fabrications about the state of the war: that it was "won," that Ir
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