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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

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This is about the most horrific thing my government has done in my lifetime. It's hard to even process. In any other context I think we'd call it terrorism.

> This is about the most horrific thing my government has done in my lifetime.

You have missed a LOT then. We do HORRIBLE things all the time.

That the government also does other horrible things does not negate the argument. I am not sure why you would bother saying that. This one is literally a war crime.

> This one is literally a war crime.

Probably a few dozen of those a year.

In other news, Israel fired White Phosphorus in Lebanon in residential areas. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/human-rights-watch...

Nothing will happen.

It takes force to prosecute war crimes.

You must be like 8 year old then

Not visibly as gruesome, but here's something worse: https://youtu.be/KP1OAD9jSaI

If you think 100+ dead children is the most horrific thing your government has done, prepare to be even more shocked - ‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip ( https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unimaginable-horrors-m... ). But ofcourse, Biden says Gaza offensive 'not genocide' ( https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hamas-war-biden-says-gaza-offen... ). (And Trump wants to build a nice Oceanview resort and casinos in Gaza!). Note that the Gaza genocide is still ongoing, and Israel (with the full support of US) has now started harassing, killing and chasing away Palestinians from the West Bank too ...

I believe in karma and genuinely feel that the bad karma that the US has earned by supporting such wanton massacres and war crimes is going to haunt your nation pretty soon - this is all going to be a precursor to the downfall of the United States as a superpower and a nation. I don't see how you can salvage this in any manner - the nation may benefit materially in the short term, but the soul of the nation is surely doomed.

Having previously worked for the defense intelligence agency, I can tell you nothing about that is surprising.

terrorism yet there is never seemingly any accountability

Today on Least Shocking News.

Have you seen the one about the shoes? I'm conflicted which is less astonishing

I actually found shoes thing astonishing. In the "I would think it is a bullshit in a normal world".

When reality is more bizarre than fiction

Are you talking about the Trump-branded shoes on amazon or the $145 Florsheim Shoes?

https://www.amazon.com/donald-trump-shoes/s?k=donald+trump+s...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-obsessed-wi...

The ones he's obsessed with, apparently what happens is he gives them out, they don't fit, and the cabinet is still wearing them, as evidenced by a number of photos

And it hasn't occurred to them that they can just take them to a store and get them exchanged for the correct size and not tell anyone?

The risk of being found out, thus showing Trump made a mistake, probably outweighs any common sense we might try to project.

But Trump said that Iran used its Tomahawk missiles to attack its own school

Why the downvote? He actually said it.

I understand there was a military installation near the school. How is someone supposed to deal with that? War is not really an “exact science”

There are schools located on US military bases, not just near. That doesn't make them viable targets. You better believe that if an attacker hit a school on a US base, the soldiers wouldn't forgive that so easily.

Well that’s not very smart IMHO. To me they look like human shields. Shame on me as I was blaming Hamas for using residential compounds for military ops but it looks like everyone does it. I wouldn’t send my kid to a school on military base especially in times of imminent war. I label that gross negligence and even provocation.

The problem is that the soldier parents want their kids to live with them on the base. The alternative is they have their kids live in an orphanage somewhere else until they decide to retire, or soldiers just aren't allowed to have kids at all. Neither is very realistic, so there are schools on bases.

Orphanage ? What about a school 2 miles away from the military installation or in Iran's given case why don't they move their sh** at the edge of the city like the shopping malls do? It may be a bit inconvenient, I get that it's inconvenient but it's far from the orphanage story. Not to mention in case of war...should the kids be kept close to a military base? Military installations within residential areas just beg for civilian casualties. Is as simple as that. If you see a military base near you move out or ask them to move out.

Usually they serve military families, but at least in the United States those kids probably aren't any safer from getting killed in an off-base school given how common school shootings are now.

For example: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-...

"It's okay when White People do it!"

Targeting intel was apparently based off ~2013 satellite imagery. By 2016, satellite images show the school was separate and outside the fence. (From https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/middleeast/iran-minab-ele...)

I don't believe that - in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. Iran's military (surprisingly) has behaved in a very restrained manner in the last 2 years against Israel (and US), possibly on the advise of Russia and China, and that is why Israel and US have not been able to galvanise much international support for their aggression against Iran. The deliberate assassination of the Ayatollah (a religious muslim leader, who was 87+ years and soon to be replaced by the Iranians themselves) and targeted slaughter of the children of Iranian military officials is meant to provoke Iranians and Shia muslims elsewhere to commit acts of terrorism against the US and Israel. Then international outrage can be whipped up by the western media and NATO can be bulldozed to join the war and send soldiers into Iran.

The children of soldiers are not legitimate military targets.

> ... in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. ...

Your opinion is wrong. There is no possibility of that being the justification for choosing a target. The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox.

> The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox.

I can't tell if you are being serious. This is literally what the US does.

You live in a fantasy world.

Americans and Europeans are in general, good people. But their political leaders, not so much. And this war is being run by a genocidal regime in Israel and the Trump administration. Moral values are the least of their concern ... (Also, I suspect the Israel regime of being the brains behind this attack. Hegeseth, the current Secretary of "war" is also a known muslim-hater, who wouldn't have been hard to persuade.).

In this case they were using very expensive munitions which go exactly where they were targeted to go; they were not using cheap, dump bombs which have a wide margin of error.

It’s not only about the precision of the munition. When you put military installations in residential areas you get this kind of result regardless of how precise the weapons are.

The maps could be outdated, intelligence may be flawed etc. In a hot war collateral casualties are secondary to the military objective. You try to avoid civilian deaths but that should be on best effort basis.

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