Senator Richard Blumenthal
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295 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 23 Apr
Senator Richard Blumenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me say first that the great fallacy and failing of this war, first of all, is the failure to tell the truth to the American people.
And I want to tell you, as a United States senator, I believe that this administration is lying to me and to the American people about what is actually happening on the ground.
For example,
We have not destroyed as much of their drone and missile capability as Pete Hegseth the Secretary of Defense is telling what's obvious because they said that that that in the 12-day war that they had just completely obliterated it and then all of a sudden six eight months later you come back and it's not completely obliterated and they continued to strike and
Yeah, it is Orwellian.
Mm-hmm in the sense that We told you one thing yesterday, but now it's completely different and I think ultimately the chaos and confusion are Revealing in showing how there's no strategy here.
There's no
there's no clear path.
And I think it's frustrating for the military and for our own men and women in uniform that they have no clear mission and strategy.
What most troubles me is, and here's the lack of truth telling, we don't know what the costs are.
I've asked in classified briefings.
several times.
What are we paying for this war?
What are the costs in dollars?
What are the costs in lives?
How many Iranians have been killed?
How many billions of dollars are we spending every day on this war?
And I have not received a single accurate or reliable answer.
And it's not me.
It's the American people who deserve
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