War Secretary Hegseth Cites 'Fog of War' In Defense of Venezuelan Boat Strike [VERTICAL]

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00:00I watched that first strike live.

00:02As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do.

00:05So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive

00:10site exploitation digitally occurs, so I moved on to my next meeting.

00:13A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the, which he had the complete

00:18authority to do, and by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink

00:23the boat and eliminate the threat.

00:25So you didn't see any survivors, to be clear, after that first strike?

00:29I did not personally see survivors, but I stand, because the thing was on fire.

00:34It was exploded, and fire, smoke, you can't see anything, you got digital.

00:38This is called the fog of war.

00:40This is what you and the press don't understand.

00:43You sit in your air-conditioned offices, you're up on Capitol Hill, and you nitpick, and you

00:47plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody, phrases on anonymous sources

00:52not based in anything, not based in any truth at all, and then you want to throw out really

00:57irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made.

01:02I wrote a whole book on this topic, because of what politicians and the press does to war

01:06fighters.

01:07I wrote as a sharing an apology among them.

01:09I might think there was a company, but that did not believe anyone is in the government.

01:10I was really harming your own country.

01:11It seems that you werezone, and you won't catch aIAMH with nothing else.

01:12You have buriedeeeee, and I always say, but I used to be fouling your own.

01:14I worked as a firm career.

01:15It would slowly be someone else, but you don't sometimes or never say, but you got paid

01:20oul but when it has to come back all the time to be in your own country.