The Pentagon's casualty website listed 18 American troops killed in the Iran war on Wednesday — by Thursday, that number had dropped to 14. Publicly, though, acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez attributed it up to a "temporary data disruption," denoting it would be fixed soon. Via the New York Times:In its casualty toll for the Iran war, the Pentagon has separated the number of troops killed under fire from those killed in accidents. “These people shouldn’t have died,” Trump told podcaster Lex Fridman in 2024, according to the Times. What a disgrace to display such disregard for our country's fallen heroes who died in an unnecessary war that Trump launched.