Dodging Guilt On School Bombing Won’t Absolve Hegseth Or Trump

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Pete Hegseth won’t have to wait much longer before notching his first officially recognized war atrocity as secretary of defense. Investigators for the Pentagon’s Central Command, in charge of all Mideast operations, have determined that U.S. forces were likely culpable in the lethal air strike on a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, that recently killed 175 Iranian civilians, mostly children under 12. While that reported finding is “preliminary,” the Tomahawk missile that hit the school […]

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Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.