Pentagon Reclassifies Iran War Casualties, Critics Say It Obscures Human Cost
🎖️ PENTAGON — The US is hiding its war dead in plain sight, and the timing is deliberate. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Reclassifying casualties creates a separate accounting that keeps official Iran war casualty figures artificially low — directly relevant as Thursday's address approaches and Trump needs the pause to look cost-free. It insulates the administration from public pressure to end hostilities while Cooper's 20% problem remains unresolved. Congress and allies reading the same sanitized numbers can't price the true cost of resumption.
