Now it comes out. Reuters reports Biden's Gaza pier injured a lot more than the MSM let on.

[impulse]

Biden’s Gaza pier injured far more troops than previously known

 

More than 60 service members were injured as a part of former President Joe Biden’s floating aid pier in Gaza, a Pentagon Inspector General report published on Tuesday said, a number significantly higher than had been previously disclosed.

 

The pier, announced by Biden during a televised address to Congress in March 2024, was a massive endeavor that took about 1,000 U.S. forces to execute.

 

The fact that it happened is excusable.  The cover up?  Not so much.  That would have been a handy piece of information for the voters to have.  Even at 30% trust in the MSM and the Dems, that's too much.

 

www.reuters.com

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/bidens-gaza-pier-injured-far-more-troops-than-previously-known-2025-05-07/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter

 

[Yagoda]

its all going to come out. There is so much out there.

[stevenl]

LOL, as published by the MSM, the ones you rail against time and time again.

[impulse]

53 minutes ago, stevenl said:

LOL, as published by the MSM, the ones you rail against time and time again.

 

 Just 6 or 7 months after the election.  That would have been handy info for an informed electorate, eh?

 

Had that happened on Trump's watch, I guaranty that all the MSM reporters assigned to cover the Pentagon would have had and published that information on the day.  But they were curiously uncurious when Biden was in office...  Why is that, you figure?

 

 

 

[riclag]

19 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

 Just 6 or 7 months after the election.  That would have been handy info for an informed electorate, eh?

 

Had that happened on Trump's watch, I guaranty that all the MSM reporters assigned to cover the Pentagon would have had and published that information on the day.  But they were curiously uncurious when Biden was in office...  Why is that, you figure?

 

 

 

He was the “Goat” for screw ups!

He was supposed to have extensive  experience on foreign affairs!

 

 

 

[FlorC]

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

LOL, as published by the MSM, the ones you rail against time and time again.

The only sources lefties accept as "true" .

We're beating you with your own stick. 😋

[SunnyinBangrak]

25 minutes ago, riclag said:

He was the “Goat” for screw ups!

He was supposed to have extensive  experience on foreign affairs!

 

 

 

How to sell America to the highest foreign bidder and launder the filthy loot was his extensive experience on foreign affairs!

And didnt his fanboys just love running distractions and disinformation for that.

[Patong2021]

The usual right wing extremists  are out in force I see to spin this into a negative.  How is it Biden's fault? The US military  had trouble building a temporary pier.   In the real world, this exercise was a valuable operation because it highlighted the  problems that can arise when building a floating pier.  Newsflash: The US military is expected to be able  build these structures to support US military forces when needed. The Gaza project was a defacto field exercise. Unlike a battle zone there was no hostile fire.

 

The US military  runs field drills somewhere in the world every day. Someone is always getting injured and sometimes people even die. This is how a military teaches its personnel.The leading cause of injury  in the US military is from vehicle crashes and almost all are non combat related. Are you going to blame Biden for that as well.

 

The report  doesn't say that 62 were injure din building the pier. "Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions," the report said.   What is also not mention is the type of injury. Bruises, cuts, contusions, slips ands falls, and sprains are recordable injuries. On any given day,  military personnel suffer  injuries during their  activities. it can be burns to a cook in a ship galley or it can be a slip and fall on a slippery deck or it can be a serious laceration while working on a vehicle. It's part of the   job

 

[impulse]

27 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The usual right wing extremists  are out in force I see to spin this into a negative.  How is it Biden's fault? The US military  had trouble building a temporary pier.   In the real world, this exercise was a valuable operation because it highlighted the  problems that can arise when building a floating pier.  Newsflash: The US military is expected to be able  build these structures to support US military forces when needed. The Gaza project was a defacto field exercise. Unlike a battle zone there was no hostile fire.

 

The issue isn't that it happened.  The issue is that it was covered up.  We're only hearing about it now that it can't hurt the election.

 

Had it happened on Trump's watch, the MSM would have been on it like a duck on a June bug.  They'd have found the most grievously injured service people and interviewed them in their hospital bed and followed their family struggles for weeks.  At least until the next election if it hurt Bad Orange Man's chances.

 

[Hanaguma]

34 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The usual right wing extremists  are out in force I see to spin this into a negative.  How is it Biden's fault? The US military  had trouble building a temporary pier.   In the real world, this exercise was a valuable operation because it highlighted the  problems that can arise when building a floating pier.  Newsflash: The US military is expected to be able  build these structures to support US military forces when needed. The Gaza project was a defacto field exercise. Unlike a battle zone there was no hostile fire.

 

The US military  runs field drills somewhere in the world every day. Someone is always getting injured and sometimes people even die. This is how a military teaches its personnel.The leading cause of injury  in the US military is from vehicle crashes and almost all are non combat related. Are you going to blame Biden for that as well.

 

The report  doesn't say that 62 were injure din building the pier. "Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions," the report said.   What is also not mention is the type of injury. Bruises, cuts, contusions, slips ands falls, and sprains are recordable injuries. On any given day,  military personnel suffer  injuries during their  activities. it can be burns to a cook in a ship galley or it can be a slip and fall on a slippery deck or it can be a serious laceration while working on a vehicle. It's part of the   job

 

You are spinning like a top.  I am sure some in the military, with even a glancing knowledge of logistics and weather, sent repeated messages to POTUS saying this was a bad idea.  But Biden was trapped by his party into doing "something" sympathetic for the Gazans.  The tightrope the report walked about the injuries also says a lot.

 

Also, consider what happened to the supplies that actually made it onshore. As soon as the trucks were off the pier, they were stopped and looted by Hamas. 

 

Yet another catastrophic failure by Joe and his merry band of leftists.

[riclag]

1 hour ago, FlorC said:

The only sources lefties accept as "true" .

We're beating you with your own stick. 😋

Thats funny and so true

[SunnyinBangrak]

35 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

The issue isn't that it happened.  The issue is that it was covered up.  We're only hearing about it now that it can't hurt the election.

 

Had it happened on Trump's watch, the MSM would have been on it like a duck on a June bug.  They'd have found the most grievously injured service people and interviewed them in their hospital bed and followed their family struggles for weeks.  At least until the next election if it hurt Bad Orange Man's chances.

 

Do you have a mediabiasfactcheck to back that up?🤣

[Patong2021]

8 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

You are spinning like a top.  I am sure some in the military, with even a glancing knowledge of logistics and weather, sent repeated messages to POTUS saying this was a bad idea.  But Biden was trapped by his party into doing "something" sympathetic for the Gazans.  The tightrope the report walked about the injuries also says a lot.

 

Also, consider what happened to the supplies that actually made it onshore. As soon as the trucks were off the pier, they were stopped and looted by Hamas. 

 

Yet another catastrophic failure by Joe and his merry band of leftists.

 

The military is expected to have the capacity to erect and to maintain a floating  pier. The Gaza  deployment was  in effect a field exercise. Do you think that when the time comes and there is a need for a pier to be deployed in windy weather, that the military will have the option to say, oh sorry, we won't do it because the conditions are not ideal?  How else do you expect the military to train and to determine if their methodologies are appropriate if they do not deploy from time to time and try out something? Gaza provided  such an opportunity.  The fact is that there is no story here. There were a small number of injuries sustained. On any given day, military personnel are injured in the course of their activities. No one was injured from hostile fire.

The issue of   what happened to the aid is separate from the alleged claim of a "cover up".

 

[Patong2021]

9 hours ago, impulse said:

 

The issue isn't that it happened.  The issue is that it was covered up.  We're only hearing about it now that it can't hurt the election.

 

Had it happened on Trump's watch, the MSM would have been on it like a duck on a June bug.  They'd have found the most grievously injured service people and interviewed them in their hospital bed and followed their family struggles for weeks.  At least until the next election if it hurt Bad Orange Man's chances.

 

 

There is no coverup.  You have no idea what the injuries were. Most of them are minor such as cuts, and scrapes and sprains. Even sea sickness is a reportable and recorded incident if it requires intervention. The US military tracks everything and here you are taking the information out of context, even though the article says the additional incidents are  undetermined. If there were 62 additional  critical or serious injuries or combat injuries, then you could claim cover up, but there were none. NONE.