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

 

[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

[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".

 

[JAG]

19 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.

Possible. Equally possible is that Biden (or his administration) floated the idea, and the military said of course we can, and rushed out, happy to have a foot in the game, possibly without fully appreciating the difficulties.

 

Secondly, 60+ injuries but no fatalities. Not recorded (or published) the seriousness of those injuries, but since there were no fatalities perhaps many were minor?

[metisdead]

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[Tug]

Trying to work in a swell is indeed dangerous no doubt about it.Im sure  sure they wouldn’t have tried unless it was a desperate situation to relieve starvation and get medical supplies in to civilians caught up in the hammas created war.

[impulse]

11 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

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".

 

Let me guess...  You're probably still claiming there was no cover up of Biden's diminished capacity, either.  Am I right?

 

[Patong2021]

10 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Let me guess...  You're probably still claiming there was no cover up of Biden's diminished capacity, either.  Am I right?

 

 

If you wish to discuss Biden's  mental state, please start another thread/topic. The  alleged cover up    has been shown not to be a cover up and so you  have a need to deflect.

[impulse]

4 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

If you wish to discuss Biden's  mental state, please start another thread/topic. The  alleged cover up    has been shown not to be a cover up and so you  have a need to deflect.

 

I'm not discussing Biden's mental state.  I'm not even discussing the pier.  I started this thread to discuss the MSM who didn't report on it until long after the election.  Whether that was incompetence or a deliberate cover up, they deserve their extremely low public ratings.  Now that there's no risk to the Biden/Harris campaign, they seem to think it's important enough to report on it.

 

And remind me.  I missed where "it's been shown not to be a cover up"?   You've made that claim, but you have provided no evidence other than your assurances.  The same assurances we got for years that there was no cover up of Biden's cognitive decline.  People with more than half a brain didn't buy it.

 

[candide]

13 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I'm not discussing Biden's mental state.  I'm not even discussing the pier.  I started this thread to discuss the MSM who didn't report on it until long after the election.  Whether that was incompetence or a deliberate cover up, they deserve their extremely low public ratings.  Now that there's no risk to the Biden/Harris campaign, they seem to think it's important enough to report on it.

 

And remind me.  I missed where "it's been shown not to be a cover up"?   You've made that claim, but you have provided no evidence other than your assurances.  The same assurances we got for years that there was no cover up of Biden's cognitive decline.  People with more than half a brain didn't buy it.

 

Another baseless allegation against MSM. The IG report was published only 4 days ago, so this number was not known by MSM. 🤣

[SunnyinBangrak]

17 minutes ago, candide said:

Another baseless allegation against MSM. The IG report was published only 4 days ago, so this number was not known by MSM. 🤣

Having fallen hook line & sinker for all hoaxes I would have expected some introspection and rethinking what is a credible source to be taking place rather than bluster.

[candide]

2 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Having fallen hook line & sinker for all hoaxes I would have expected some introspection and rethinking what is a credible source to be taking place rather than bluster.

Blah blah! How could MSM have reported about an information which was not available? It's incoherent!  🙂

[impulse]

32 minutes ago, candide said:

Another baseless allegation against MSM. The IG report was published only 4 days ago, so this number was not known by MSM. 

 

Since when have Pentagon reporters waited for official announcements? 

 

They were curiously uncurious when the bad news was on Biden's watch.    Had Trump been on office at the time, the zillions of MSM reporters assigned to cover the Pentagon would have been all over it like ducks on a junebug. 

 

I miss Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, David Brinkley and other real newsmen.  Warts and all.

 

[ThreeCardMonte]

9 minutes ago, candide said:

Blah blah! How could MSM have reported about an information which was not available? It's incoherent!  🙂

What makes you think they didn’t know about it?

 

They're not known for transparency and integrity.

[impulse]

1 minute ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

What makes you think they didn’t know about it?

 

They were forced to cover it only when it came out in an official report.  More like shamed into covering it...

 

[candide]

7 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Since when have Pentagon reporters waited for official announcements? 

 

They were curiously uncurious when the bad news was on Biden's watch.    Had Trump been on office at the time, the zillions of MSM reporters assigned to cover the Pentagon would have been all over it like ducks on a junebug. 

 

I miss Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, David Brinkley and other real newsmen.  Warts and all.

 

More incoherence. The RW media: Fox News, NYPost, Breitbart, etc... did not publish it either. Were they also uncurious? 🤣

[candide]

6 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

What makes you think they didn’t know about it?

 

They're not known for transparency and integrity.

Same reply.

The RW media: Fox News, NYPost, Breitbart, etc... did not publish it either. Were they also uncurious? 🤣

[Lacessit]

On 5/9/2025 at 12:15 PM, riclag said:

He was the “Goat” for screw ups!

He was supposed to have extensive  experience on foreign affairs!

 

 

 

Not a chance. The tariffs are the biggest screw up in American history, alienating allies and impoverishing Americans.

 

The first time in financial history bonds have fallen in concert with shares.

[ThreeCardMonte]

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6 minutes ago, candide said:

Same reply.

The RW media: Fox News, NYPost, Breitbart, etc... did not publish it either. Were they also uncurious? 🤣

I don’t know.  
 

I haven’t asked them.

[impulse]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Not a chance. The tariffs are the biggest screw up in American history, alienating allies and impoverishing Americans.

 

The first time in financial history bonds have fallen in concert with shares.

 

At the same time that job numbers in the private sector keep exceeding expectations.  And they don't even have to be adjusted down retroactively every month.

 

 

[Magictoad]

On 5/9/2025 at 12:43 PM, 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

 

It was Biden's fault and his weakness was covered up to try and help him defeat Trump.

[Bkk Brian]

21 minutes ago, candide said:

Same reply.

The RW media: Fox News, NYPost, Breitbart, etc... did not publish it either. Were they also uncurious? 🤣

But they did.

 

Biden Gaza pier fiasco left 62 US forces injured, one dead and caused $31M in damages: report

https://nypost.com/2025/05/07/world-news/biden-gaza-pier-fiasco-left-62-us-forces-injured-one-dead-and-caused-31m-in-damages-report/

 

A military floating pier ordered by then-President Joseph R. Biden to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip was functional for barely 20 days before the effort was scrubbed following the death of a servicemember, dozens of injuries and the damage or loss of tens of millions of dollars worth of crucial equipment battered by heavy storms.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/7/bidens-floating-pier-mission-gaza-failed-cost-us-soldiers-life/