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US military killed 160 school girls in Minab with Tomahawk missile (www.wsws.org)

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Analyses and video evidence emerged over the weekend showing that the air strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School on February 28—that killed over 160 girls aged 7 to 12—was carried out by the US military.

The girls’ school in Minab is in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province close to the Persian Gulf. The school was effectively pulverized by multiple blasts, and many of those killed were obliterated and could only be identified through DNA analysis. Footage showed bodies and body parts partially trapped under collapsed floors, alongside scattered schoolbags, notebooks and dust‑covered textbooks.

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[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Could you even imagine our response if the situation were reversed?

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah. We might bomb their schools and assassinate their leaders.

Edit: On second thought... we didn't bomb Saudi Arabia for 9/11.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's the fun thing about doing the worst shit you can think of on the first day, doesn't really give you any options after that. We can really threaten Iran with actually we haven't done.

Of course that is the MAGA Hallmark: evil, selfish, AND stupid.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

You think this is the worst that could be done? I admire your optimism.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Once you start killing peoples kids, the only escalation is killing more of them.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

How about causing lingering pain and suffering on a populace, including children. Theyre not dead (yet) but they suffer for as long as possible until they do.

Like Gaza.

[-] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

We're already doing that, they purposely attacked a water desalinization plant a few days ago.

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Also isn't it kind of funny that Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 and it was in fact Saudi Arabia and yet we keep peddling this trope about Iran...?

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Have I caught the Iran-Iraq confusion in the wild?

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Instead we opted for regime change in Afghanistan. Look how that turned out.

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[-] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 15 points 2 months ago

Thoughts and prayers? That's usually what happens when US school children die.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

The only thing that could've saved them was a good guy with a ~~gun~~BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile!!!

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 2 months ago

"Thanks to our boys in blue and having access to a BGM-109 Tomahawk. The police were able to neutralize the shooter with no injuries to our brave officers. Our initial investigation shows that all the children were dead before the Tomahawk hit the target. This is contrary to eye witness reports who are falsely claiming that all the school children were alive. As a city, we are going to continue to purchase discounted US military equipment to protect our beloved citizens."

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[-] DandomRude@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Given the fact that the rape of more than 1,000 young girls by Epstein and his billionaire friends had no consequences whatsoever, and that the cold-blooded murder of these innocent Iranian schoolgirls, which is part of the US regime's cover-up efforts, also has no consequences for those responsible, I would say that the US response would probably be to elevate the culprits to government office.

[-] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

Amerikkka: Tired of killing kids in its own schools, now killing kids in other countries' schools

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Now?

[-] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

The cruelty is the point. They're just wanting to destroy key infrastructure and kill as many children as possible. We learned well from Israel.

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[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

who tf downvoted you? Butthurt USians who couldn't handle the truth?

[-] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Probably just a stickler for spelling errors.

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[-] kboos1@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump killed school girls

Let's not forget who specifically ordered this war to be started. All headlines should start with Trump ordered children to be murdered or Trump is getting people killed or Trump has raised oil prices and people are beginning to starve or Trump closed off shipping lanes

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

He has raped school girls too. I need to replace the pic inside the helmet to one with both Jeff and Don in it.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, but don't give the soldiers that pulled the trigger a pass. They're legally required to not follow illegal orders. All of them should be court marshalled and charged with war crimes.

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[-] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Trump

Nope, the United States of America.

You’re responsible for who you elect.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Despite my town, my county, my state all voting strongly against the shitstain in the white house, you're right. And it's fucking embarrassing. US voters are, collectively, the worst.

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[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The US must demand the heads of whichever evil shits did this. Not the people who were instructed, the people who made the decisions.

EDIT I've been convinced by some of the arguments and then re-reading history about Nazi Germany through to Colonel Oliver North. The people who physically pull the trigger can, in a hearing, be allowed to explain why they pull that trigger. I would imagine that this buries the people making the decisions higher than their neck.

[-] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Nah the shitheads that pulled the trigger can get it, too.

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

America not content with the school massacres on it's own soil. smh

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[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Those missiles could have gone to Ukraine to defend against russian tanks, but for some reason the current US administration said we couldn't afford it...

Weird...

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The us military gets a trillion a year and they’re already screaming they’re low on munitions.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

It was no fucking accident!

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[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The USA killed hundreds of thousands of children in Iraq, they are just warming up to SAVE DEMOCRACY, which requires many thousands of stacked up baby bodies

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[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

How would Americans reasonably react if this happened to one of their schools by another country. Have to specify where this would be by another country as we all know they don't care if it was an American

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Headline is misleading, sounds like it was actually multiple missiles.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

According to the survivors it was, they said they the first blast made the principal move everyone to the common room for shelter, and the second one struck and killed almost everyone in the shelter.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Double tapped a school. Let that sink in.

[-] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Someone pressed the button to kill children, then pressed again to kill more. I am not mad at dt but at that human who pressed the button. Why cant every soldier just say no and kill the one who told him to do the war crime

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The ones with morals already left the force

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

In this case, it sounds like the school used to be part of the neighboring base, so the US intelligence was just very outdated. So the guy with his finger on the trigger was probably told it was a military target.

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[-] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Because soldiers follow orders.

How would that soldier know that the school was filled with children? He's sitting 100 miles away, on a boat. His commanding officer gives him a set of coordinates to fire upon. The soldier follows orders, because that's his only job.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

And his CO also doesn't know jack about the targets. He gets a list of targets, he confirms if he can achieve them and reports success or failure

Anyone thinking that military, any military, entertains debate and full disclosures once the orders are given is just fucking with reality.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

The only person denying this is Donald Trump. Even the US military isn't disowning this incident.

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