SKANDAL PERANG! Pete Hegseth Dicecar Kongres Soal Serangan Rudal ke Sekolah di Iran | Sindo Trending

[0:00]The girl school that got hit in the first days of this war. There is absolutely no question at this point what happened. We made a mistake and that happens in war. We identified this target based on earlier charts, and yet two months after it happened, we refused to say anything about it, giving the world the impression that we just don't care. We do not care about the casualties and the chaos that is caused by our war, and we should care even if we want to prosecute that war. Now, I agree with the chairman. We need a strategy. We face the most complex threat environment that we've faced in a very, very long time. So we really want to hear from the administration. Don't give us this realism, chest thumping stuff. What are we really going to do to meet those threats, to deal with the challenges we face. Under the leadership of President Trump, our builder-in-chief, we are reversing this systemic decay and putting our defense industrial base back on a wartime footing. We're restoring American commercial dominance at a pace unseen in generations. Transforming the defense industrial base from a broken, slow-moving system of the past. We have flipped the Pentagon acquisition process from a bureaucratic model to a business model, 180. Decisively moving from an acquisition environment paralyzed by bureaucratic red tape into an outcomes-driven organization focused on delivering the most at cost at scale for taxpayer dollars. By changing our department's, transforming our department's business model, American companies are investing in America with their own money, their own capital. A historic demonstration of American manufacturing and defense revitalization. All again with their capital, not Uncle Sam's. This has never been done before and is long overdue from a bureaucratic model to a business model. Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb. We are proud of this undertaking. I am proud that President Trump was have the courage to do it and I look forward to sharing more about what our troops have accomplished. Chairman, uh, you know, in my in my view this this represents a historic down payment on future security. Um, if if the budget is approved and ultimately deployed, as we look at the character of warfare changing very, very fast. What's layered in uh to this budget by our civilian leaders will allow us to start getting ahead of where uh technology is evolving. And and as I mentioned, the character of war fighting is is changing pretty quickly. Mass, simultaneity, autonomy, under sea, space, cyber, information. All of those those ways that are now manifesting themselves on the battlefield around the world, um, uh require a higher end of capital investment and that's why we're grateful for the uh opportunity to have this budget make its way to the joint force. So it's an important uh down payment on the future here, sir. President Trump has been clear eyed from the killing of Kassem Soleimani, to the pulling out of the Iran deal, to Midnight Hammer and now to this effort to recognize that it you have to stare down this kind of enemy who's hell bent on getting a nuclear weapon and get them to a point where they're at the table giving it up in a way that he's never So they haven't So they haven't broken yet. Okay, we haven't gotten there yet for all of the Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated, underground, they're buried, and watching them 24/7. So we know where any nuclear material might be. We're watching it second here. We had to start this war. You just said 60 days ago because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated. They had not given up their nuclear ambitions, and they had a conventional shield of thousands of So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplish nothing of substance. It left us at exactly the same point we were before. So much so that we their facilities were bombed and obliterated their their ambitions continued. And they're building a conventional shield Let me try again. It's the North Korea strategy. You know this very well. The North Korea strategy was use conventional missiles to prevent anybody from challenging them so they could slow walk their way to a weapon. President Trump saw Iran at its weakest moment, took an action to ensure in a way that only the United States of America could do with our Israeli partners. And yet they still haven't given up their nuclear conventional shield was was brought one of the question we've done if I could get 18 months. We didn't miss, and we're here in this committee is that Joe Biden with no accountability gave hundreds of billions of dollars of our weapons to Ukraine, uh to an outcome that never would have happened if President Trump was the president. I can't answer that question. You've testified that it was 25 billion in cost in terms of the munitions we used and what we paid for it, but when you add to that the damage that was done to our bases and today's dollars for buying replacement munitions and replacement aircrafts, what has the total cost been over the last 60 days? That number right now reflects the total cost that we're seeing. Including buying in today's dollars the new uh weapons and replacements and including the damage there, that's your testimony if there's adjustments to that, I would I would defer to the comptroller on that. And how much are you seeing in terms of the are you asking in terms of supplemental funding just for the Iran uh mission from this committee. If if and when a supplemental is submitted, uh the majority of it would not just be for would not be for the But what would be only for Iran. munitions related to the entirety of what we want to get done. Just a number. What what would you submit? What are you It would be within the on Iran it would be less than 25 billion, but there's a lot more we would ask for beyond just Iran. You're saying it's 25 billion. Okay, I would just if you come back and want to revise those numbers because all the experts are disagreeing with you when it comes to today's dollars and damage, but you can revise it. How much did it cost American taxpayers in terms of the strike to the Iranian school where kids were killed. Do you have that number? In terms of the missiles we used. As I've said that uh unfortunate situation remains under investigation. You don't know how much it cost the Pentagon, but I wouldn't tie a cost to that to anything. It's a reasonable question, sir. I mean our taxpayer money was going there. Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war? I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb. I'm going to give you that. I would simply ask you what the you're playing gotcha questions about domestic things. You're asking, you're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be in terms of the increased cost in gas. Why won't you answer what it costs to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb? I give you that sir, but let me What would it cost what would you pay to ensure Iran doesn't get a nuclear bomb? Do you what I reclaim my time. Do you not know? You had no one do the analysis of what the increased cost of gas and food on the American people are going to be. What is the cost of Iran holding that strait at issue with nuclear weapons? It's $631 billion, which means it's an increase of $5,000 a year for American households. Now, let me give you this point. You're saying that your operation is preventing a nuclear Iran. Will you acknowledge that there is an economic cost to the American people for doing what you believe is necessary to make Iran uh D nuclear? Will you acknowledge the economic cost? We have an incredible economic team that's managing this better than Yeah, but what the previous administration did to our economy with the previous administration did for inflation. Do you don't even know what the You know what's upsetting, I reclaim my time. Do you know what's upsetting, incredible. You didn't even do the analysis on how much it's costing the American people. It's one thing if you said, okay, it cost the American people $5,000, but we think it's worth it. Uh, that's what we've done in World War II and other wars. Here's what it costs, you got to pay for it. You don't even know what the average American is paying. You don't know what we paid in terms of the missiles that hit the Iranian school. You don't know what we're paying in terms of gas. You don't know what we're paying in terms of food. Your $25 billion number is totally off. It's the incompetence. It's the incompetence. You said, we will give them no quarter, no mercy. In order for no quarter, no survivors is a war crime under the Geneva conventions. You understand that's murder. Do you stand by that statement? Uh, the Department of War fights to win, and we ensure that our war fighters have the rules of engagement necessary to be as effective as humanly possible. Okay, so just to be clear, you called Democratic members of Congress to be tried for sedition for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by yourself because insinuating that the laws that we're giving them are gratulatous. Mr. Heck, I stand by what I said last time you were here. You were incompetent then, here incompetent now, and you're the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to incompetence. Uh, any moves we make with general officers. First of all, I thanked them for their service. Uh, and ultimately. My impression is you thanked him by a text or a phone call. You didn't even do it to his face. Out of respect for these officers, we never talk about the nature of their removal, but every one of them including myself, knows that they serve at the pleasure of the president. So why didn't you fire him? Ultimately, out of respect for these officers, we don't reveal it. However, I will note, it's very difficult to change the culture of a department that was been destroyed by the wrong perspectives. So you think General George destroyed a culture? There are many We've we've gotten rid of many general officers in this administration because we need new leadership. You have no way of explaining why you fired one of the most decorated and remarkable men who's ever We needed new leadership. And so your answer is a very immature way of responding to my my request. The issue in front of this is whether the decision to remove General Randy George strengthened the army or created an avoidable disruption during an active operational period. General George, who also served as commanding general at First Core at JBLM, has been serving for four decades, including multiple command and operational leadership roles, culminating as chief of staff for the Army responsible for readiness, force modernization, and the welfare of over a million soldiers and civilians. He was removed in the middle of an active conflict involving US operations against Iran, when leadership continuity is most critical. Public reporting indicates that General George's removal may have followed disagreements over army personnel matters, including concerns regarding withheld promotions. So my question, secretary, is this: What specific national security risk, mission risk, or leadership concern did General George present that justified removing him in the middle of a conflict, or was he removed because he challenged some decisions? And I guess my question is, is this about loyalty to Trump, or is it about what's good for the mission? Um, I understand what you're implying, but it's about the Constitution and our military, and its ability to execute and I'm going to make sure the president has the finest officers across the force prepared to deliver. So this committee funds weapons, readiness, recruiting, professional development, and leadership pipelines, but no amount of money can compensate for a force that may lose trust in the fairness of advancement. And this is fairness. We believe in merit. We have always had a merit-based system. That's not the argument. No, we have not. Not under the Biden administration, we did not. It became social engineering, not merit, and we're fixing it quick. No, we did not. No, it did not. It did not. Under the leadership of President Trump, our builder-in-chief, we are reversing this systemic decay and putting our defense industrial base back on a wartime footing. If you ask anyone at our Pentagon, urgency informs everything we do. We're rebuilding a military that the American people can be proud of. One that instills nothing less than unrelenting fear in our adversaries and the utmost confidence in our allies. We fight to win in every scenario.