As has been shown a bazillion times throughout human history.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is no low deep enough for these traitors.

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

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

Nothing but lies and propaganda now.

As in - “Pete, urine over your head”

But your point is well taken.

Trump is pee brain

True.

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.

... 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.

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".

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.

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