We'll never know how many Iranian civilians they killed to save 1 US pilot.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
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Thank GOD we Eliminated my VA Benefits and Social Security! OTHERWISE I would be PISSED at this WASTE of Money! OR if a DEMOCRAT did it!
-NOT Sheep Free Thinking Republican Voters!
Want cheaper medication to fucking survive? HA HA HA! Nope! We’re all out of money! We just don’t have any
Lots of medicine comes from India who use petrochemicals from the Middle East.
Medicine is going to get expensive.
Did they actually rescue him? There are doubts.
I wonder how many soldiers died in the rescue operation?
you will never know.
We tired of winning yet?
This situation reminds me too much of 'Wag the Dog'
Already?
2 billion is just for the planes and rescue lol
What were these service members doing right before the Iran war? Whatever it was, they aren’t doing that now. We’re instead paying them to do this shit in Iran, with whatever is going on for their last posting… I think that mean it’s fair game to add salaries to the cost.
Nobody cares about money! We all have so much of it!
At the very least they're valuing the soldiers' lives enough to spend so much on saving them. To be honest I completely expected the US forces to just forget about anyone lost on Iranian territory.
You think the guy who says WW2 soldiers who died are losers and suckers cares about a life?
He cares about the bad publicity. He "won the war in an hour", and 5 weeks later is out losing jets and pilots?
It would look bad for him not to rescue, cause you goddamn know Iran would have made that an absolutely endless attack against him in the news if they caught the pilot first, put the pilot where their command was and dared Trump to bomb his own troops, which I fully believe he would do.