Whose Airstrike Bombed a Girls’ School in Iran? The U.S. Says It’s Still Investigating.

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Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

DP. It’s not our taxpayer funded weapons bombing Ukrainian schools. I condemn any school bombing but take the ones done in my name as defense more personally.

Ah, war crimes are only war crimes when they involve US taxpayer funds. Got it.

The arguments in this forum are pure crap.

Take care of your house. It does not matter what Johnny down the street does. You soon like a drug addiction blaming everyone for your actions. Grow up and shut up.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the US make some attempt to make amends for this horrific mistake of killing all these school children?

How does Russia make amends for all of the unwarranted brutality it's inflicted on Ukraine since 2014? How does Iran make amends for the violence and chaos it's driven throughout the middle east since 1979? How does Israel make amends?

Seems like this is the new global normal and if you're looking to Trump to be a moral standard bearer to raise the standard, you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Don't look to Russia or Iran or Israel for how the United States should behave. We should take responsibility for this atrocity.

Russia and Israel's immorality are OK. It's only the US that needs to behave.

The arguments in this forum are pure crap.

That's what you took from PP? Your last sentence sums of your own post.

How so? The PP made it pretty clear they have no expectation of Russia or Israel ever being held to account. Only the US should be held to any standard. It's not me that has the communication problem here. Work on your own arguments.

No, they didn't. They stated their issue with what the US did. That's it. You're the one that keeps trying to make it about everyone else. Whataboutism is a notoriously weak argument strategy. You're unable to argue the actual issue at hand—the US's war crime—so you attempt to obfuscate and dismiss it in favor of pointing fingers at everyone else. Loser.

+1 … dead on the money analysis. The poster accusing others of saying things they never said is the absolute worst.

Be gone, pest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

DP. It’s not our taxpayer funded weapons bombing Ukrainian schools. I condemn any school bombing but take the ones done in my name as defense more personally.

Ah, war crimes are only war crimes when they involve US taxpayer funds. Got it.

The arguments in this forum are pure crap.

Take care of your house. It does not matter what Johnny down the street does. You soon like a drug addiction blaming everyone for your actions. Grow up and shut up.

"But clearly some posters on this thread have an agenda and want criticism of anyone other than the US shut down."

You keep showing yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the US make some attempt to make amends for this horrific mistake of killing all these school children?

How does Russia make amends for all of the unwarranted brutality it's inflicted on Ukraine since 2014? How does Iran make amends for the violence and chaos it's driven throughout the middle east since 1979? How does Israel make amends?

Seems like this is the new global normal and if you're looking to Trump to be a moral standard bearer to raise the standard, you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Don't look to Russia or Iran or Israel for how the United States should behave. We should take responsibility for this atrocity.

Russia and Israel's immorality are OK. It's only the US that needs to behave.

The arguments in this forum are pure crap.

That's what you took from PP? Your last sentence sums of your own post.

How so? The PP made it pretty clear they have no expectation of Russia or Israel ever being held to account. Only the US should be held to any standard. It's not me that has the communication problem here. Work on your own arguments.

No, they didn't. They stated their issue with what the US did. That's it. You're the one that keeps trying to make it about everyone else. Whataboutism is a notoriously weak argument strategy. You're unable to argue the actual issue at hand—the US's war crime—so you attempt to obfuscate and dismiss it in favor of pointing fingers at everyone else. Loser.

+1 … dead on the money analysis. The poster accusing others of saying things they never said is the absolute worst.

Be gone, pest.

"You're OK with killing kids" etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

I can't tell you what the phantoms in your head say or explain your inability to remember events from just a few years ago. There has been widespread coverage and condemnation of Russia's attacks on schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.

General condemnation and by other accounts, yes. But not specific condemnation by the same accounts that are currently the loudest to condemn the Minab attack.

You've created your own strawman. Get off of twitter, it's warping your mind.

It's no strawman of my own creation. I've done the searches. The top accounts doing the loudest moralistic tweeting about the Minab bombing were silent when schools in Ukraine were being bombed. That's nothing of my own doing. I'm merely exposing online hypocrisy, lopsided astroturfing and trolling. And I'm pretty sure it's happening here on DCUM as well.

Congratulations, you just discovered that twitter is a cesspool of manipulation and in no way representative of reality. The rest of us have know that for years.

People are upset because of what happened not because some random account on twitter says to be upset. It happened, it was unnecessary, it was not faulty navigation, and it was a war crime. Not as bad a war crime as what Russia, Israel, or Iran have done but a war crime nonetheless. We're supposed to be the white hats. Those other three countries wear their black hats with pride.

The more interesting question, is why did it happen? I do not think we deliberately blew up a school, even though we did deliberately blow up a building that was a school. Did AI create the target package? Did Israel give us the target packages? I don't know but we do need to find out why so it doesn't happen again.

Pretending that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't us, because twitter bots are amplifying the story is counter productive.

I think it was intentional. Pete Hegseth has said no rules of engagement. He has a history from his time in Iraq.

In Iraq in 2006 four members of his company were court-martialed for killing unarmed detainees and by his own recent admissions that he instructed his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement. Sounds like he ordered the killing of detainees and civilians in Iraq. I do not know what purpose killing detainees or civilians serve other than to make them fight harder and not surrender.

He ordered the blowing up of civilian boats and the killing of shipwreck survivors.

This fits his pattern of operations. There will be more as long as he and his people are in DOD. I am sure they have committed other crimes in Iran we will hear about eventually. I am sure the Iranians will not surrender because it means sure death.

NP. I can’t imagine why someone would purposely target a school, even with changes to the rules of engagement. But I just read an interesting article with a lot of background on how decisions to gut the military programs tasked with preventing harms to civilians could contribute to mistakes of this kind.

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/the-us-had-a-blueprint-to-avoid-civilian-war-casualties-trump-officials-scrapped-it-partner/

The article is long and a little disorganized. As someone who doesn’t usually pay attention to military/war news, I read the whole thing and appreciated all the background, but for a tl;dr the parts that seem most relevant here are the beginning about how they fired 90% of the staff responsible for preventing civilian casualties and the very end where they mention the normal procedures for mapping military vs civilian movement patterns in an area in the days or weeks before a bombing.

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Anonymous wrote:How does the US make some attempt to make amends for this horrific mistake of killing all these school children?

How does Russia make amends for all of the unwarranted brutality it's inflicted on Ukraine since 2014? How does Iran make amends for the violence and chaos it's driven throughout the middle east since 1979? How does Israel make amends?

Seems like this is the new global normal and if you're looking to Trump to be a moral standard bearer to raise the standard, you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Don't look to Russia or Iran or Israel for how the United States should behave. We should take responsibility for this atrocity.

Russia and Israel's immorality are OK. It's only the US that needs to behave.

The arguments in this forum are pure crap.

That's what you took from PP? Your last sentence sums of your own post.

How so? The PP made it pretty clear they have no expectation of Russia or Israel ever being held to account. Only the US should be held to any standard. It's not me that has the communication problem here. Work on your own arguments.

No, they didn't. They stated their issue with what the US did. That's it. You're the one that keeps trying to make it about everyone else. Whataboutism is a notoriously weak argument strategy. You're unable to argue the actual issue at hand—the US's war crime—so you attempt to obfuscate and dismiss it in favor of pointing fingers at everyone else. Loser.

+1 … dead on the money analysis. The poster accusing others of saying things they never said is the absolute worst.

Be gone, pest.

"You're OK with killing kids" etc.

Hey, I actually didn’t say it but now that I know you’re a Zionist mouth breather, I know you not only feel that way, but that you probably personally engage in those kinds of reindeer games.

Gross. You’re gross. Just a gross waste of space.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

I can't tell you what the phantoms in your head say or explain your inability to remember events from just a few years ago. There has been widespread coverage and condemnation of Russia's attacks on schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.

General condemnation and by other accounts, yes. But not specific condemnation by the same accounts that are currently the loudest to condemn the Minab attack.

You've created your own strawman. Get off of twitter, it's warping your mind.

It's no strawman of my own creation. I've done the searches. The top accounts doing the loudest moralistic tweeting about the Minab bombing were silent when schools in Ukraine were being bombed. That's nothing of my own doing. I'm merely exposing online hypocrisy, lopsided astroturfing and trolling. And I'm pretty sure it's happening here on DCUM as well.

Congratulations, you just discovered that twitter is a cesspool of manipulation and in no way representative of reality. The rest of us have know that for years.

People are upset because of what happened not because some random account on twitter says to be upset. It happened, it was unnecessary, it was not faulty navigation, and it was a war crime. Not as bad a war crime as what Russia, Israel, or Iran have done but a war crime nonetheless. We're supposed to be the white hats. Those other three countries wear their black hats with pride.

The more interesting question, is why did it happen? I do not think we deliberately blew up a school, even though we did deliberately blow up a building that was a school. Did AI create the target package? Did Israel give us the target packages? I don't know but we do need to find out why so it doesn't happen again.

Pretending that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't us, because twitter bots are amplifying the story is counter productive.

I think it was intentional. Pete Hegseth has said no rules of engagement. He has a history from his time in Iraq.

In Iraq in 2006 four members of his company were court-martialed for killing unarmed detainees and by his own recent admissions that he instructed his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement. Sounds like he ordered the killing of detainees and civilians in Iraq. I do not know what purpose killing detainees or civilians serve other than to make them fight harder and not surrender.

He ordered the blowing up of civilian boats and the killing of shipwreck survivors.

This fits his pattern of operations. There will be more as long as he and his people are in DOD. I am sure they have committed other crimes in Iran we will hear about eventually. I am sure the Iranians will not surrender because it means sure death.

NP. I can’t imagine why someone would purposely target a school, even with changes to the rules of engagement. But I just read an interesting article with a lot of background on how decisions to gut the military programs tasked with preventing harms to civilians could contribute to mistakes of this kind.

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/the-us-had-a-blueprint-to-avoid-civilian-war-casualties-trump-officials-scrapped-it-partner/

The article is long and a little disorganized. As someone who doesn’t usually pay attention to military/war news, I read the whole thing and appreciated all the background, but for a tl;dr the parts that seem most relevant here are the beginning about how they fired 90% of the staff responsible for preventing civilian casualties and the very end where they mention the normal procedures for mapping military vs civilian movement patterns in an area in the days or weeks before a bombing.

Agree that Trump and Hegseth have made a lot of drastic changes for the worse which is likely impacting US military conduct and use of the US military in force projection.

But by the same token there are clearly posters here who want to instead just broadly bash the US and label us all evil even when many of us did not vote for this and do not support it. It's a deep, dishonest pattern that repeats all across social media right now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How does the US make some attempt to make amends for this horrific mistake of killing all these school children?

How does Russia make amends for all of the unwarranted brutality it's inflicted on Ukraine since 2014? How does Iran make amends for the violence and chaos it's driven throughout the middle east since 1979? How does Israel make amends?

Seems like this is the new global normal and if you're looking to Trump to be a moral standard bearer to raise the standard, you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Don't look to Russia or Iran or Israel for how the United States should behave. We should take responsibility for this atrocity.

Russia and Israel's immorality are OK. It's only the US that needs to behave.

The arguments in this forum are pure crap.

That's what you took from PP? Your last sentence sums of your own post.

How so? The PP made it pretty clear they have no expectation of Russia or Israel ever being held to account. Only the US should be held to any standard. It's not me that has the communication problem here. Work on your own arguments.

No, they didn't. They stated their issue with what the US did. That's it. You're the one that keeps trying to make it about everyone else. Whataboutism is a notoriously weak argument strategy. You're unable to argue the actual issue at hand—the US's war crime—so you attempt to obfuscate and dismiss it in favor of pointing fingers at everyone else. Loser.

+1 … dead on the money analysis. The poster accusing others of saying things they never said is the absolute worst.

Be gone, pest.

"You're OK with killing kids" etc.

Hey, I actually didn’t say it but now that I know you’re a Zionist mouth breather, I know you not only feel that way, but that you probably personally engage in those kinds of reindeer games.

Gross. You’re gross. Just a gross waste of space.

There you are - the one who falsely accuses everyone of being "Zionist" and hurls personal insults rather than actually wanting to speak to any substance. You also clearly like dishonestly pretending and playing games about what you did or didn't post.

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Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

I can't tell you what the phantoms in your head say or explain your inability to remember events from just a few years ago. There has been widespread coverage and condemnation of Russia's attacks on schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.

General condemnation and by other accounts, yes. But not specific condemnation by the same accounts that are currently the loudest to condemn the Minab attack.

You've created your own strawman. Get off of twitter, it's warping your mind.

It's no strawman of my own creation. I've done the searches. The top accounts doing the loudest moralistic tweeting about the Minab bombing were silent when schools in Ukraine were being bombed. That's nothing of my own doing. I'm merely exposing online hypocrisy, lopsided astroturfing and trolling. And I'm pretty sure it's happening here on DCUM as well.

Congratulations, you just discovered that twitter is a cesspool of manipulation and in no way representative of reality. The rest of us have know that for years.

People are upset because of what happened not because some random account on twitter says to be upset. It happened, it was unnecessary, it was not faulty navigation, and it was a war crime. Not as bad a war crime as what Russia, Israel, or Iran have done but a war crime nonetheless. We're supposed to be the white hats. Those other three countries wear their black hats with pride.

The more interesting question, is why did it happen? I do not think we deliberately blew up a school, even though we did deliberately blow up a building that was a school. Did AI create the target package? Did Israel give us the target packages? I don't know but we do need to find out why so it doesn't happen again.

Pretending that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't us, because twitter bots are amplifying the story is counter productive.

I think it was intentional. Pete Hegseth has said no rules of engagement. He has a history from his time in Iraq.

In Iraq in 2006 four members of his company were court-martialed for killing unarmed detainees and by his own recent admissions that he instructed his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement. Sounds like he ordered the killing of detainees and civilians in Iraq. I do not know what purpose killing detainees or civilians serve other than to make them fight harder and not surrender.

He ordered the blowing up of civilian boats and the killing of shipwreck survivors.

This fits his pattern of operations. There will be more as long as he and his people are in DOD. I am sure they have committed other crimes in Iran we will hear about eventually. I am sure the Iranians will not surrender because it means sure death.

NP. I can’t imagine why someone would purposely target a school, even with changes to the rules of engagement. But I just read an interesting article with a lot of background on how decisions to gut the military programs tasked with preventing harms to civilians could contribute to mistakes of this kind.

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/the-us-had-a-blueprint-to-avoid-civilian-war-casualties-trump-officials-scrapped-it-partner/

The article is long and a little disorganized. As someone who doesn’t usually pay attention to military/war news, I read the whole thing and appreciated all the background, but for a tl;dr the parts that seem most relevant here are the beginning about how they fired 90% of the staff responsible for preventing civilian casualties and the very end where they mention the normal procedures for mapping military vs civilian movement patterns in an area in the days or weeks before a bombing.

Agree that Trump and Hegseth have made a lot of drastic changes for the worse which is likely impacting US military conduct and use of the US military in force projection.

But by the same token there are clearly posters here who want to instead just broadly bash the US and label us all evil even when many of us did not vote for this and do not support it. It's a deep, dishonest pattern that repeats all across social media right now.

I'm not sure how you really get to that conclusion. Nobody is saying that Iranian citizens are evil just because they're living under an evil government. Same with Russian citizens and their evil government. And same with US citizens and our evil administration.

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No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Wars sucks. I wish we hadn't started one.

[Anonymous]

1796-George Washington farewell address

Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments,
which under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be
regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty… Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachment for others should be excluded; and in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest… So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It also leads to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to be retained, and by exciting
jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges
are withheld.

And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote
themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own
country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearance of a
virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable
zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliance of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow
citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and
experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican
government. Excessive partiality for one nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real Patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and
confidence of the people, to surrender their interest. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible…

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign
world… Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

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Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

I can't tell you what the phantoms in your head say or explain your inability to remember events from just a few years ago. There has been widespread coverage and condemnation of Russia's attacks on schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.

General condemnation and by other accounts, yes. But not specific condemnation by the same accounts that are currently the loudest to condemn the Minab attack.

You've created your own strawman. Get off of twitter, it's warping your mind.

It's no strawman of my own creation. I've done the searches. The top accounts doing the loudest moralistic tweeting about the Minab bombing were silent when schools in Ukraine were being bombed. That's nothing of my own doing. I'm merely exposing online hypocrisy, lopsided astroturfing and trolling. And I'm pretty sure it's happening here on DCUM as well.

Congratulations, you just discovered that twitter is a cesspool of manipulation and in no way representative of reality. The rest of us have know that for years.

People are upset because of what happened not because some random account on twitter says to be upset. It happened, it was unnecessary, it was not faulty navigation, and it was a war crime. Not as bad a war crime as what Russia, Israel, or Iran have done but a war crime nonetheless. We're supposed to be the white hats. Those other three countries wear their black hats with pride.

The more interesting question, is why did it happen? I do not think we deliberately blew up a school, even though we did deliberately blow up a building that was a school. Did AI create the target package? Did Israel give us the target packages? I don't know but we do need to find out why so it doesn't happen again.

Pretending that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't us, because twitter bots are amplifying the story is counter productive.

I think it was intentional. Pete Hegseth has said no rules of engagement. He has a history from his time in Iraq.

In Iraq in 2006 four members of his company were court-martialed for killing unarmed detainees and by his own recent admissions that he instructed his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement. Sounds like he ordered the killing of detainees and civilians in Iraq. I do not know what purpose killing detainees or civilians serve other than to make them fight harder and not surrender.

He ordered the blowing up of civilian boats and the killing of shipwreck survivors.

This fits his pattern of operations. There will be more as long as he and his people are in DOD. I am sure they have committed other crimes in Iran we will hear about eventually. I am sure the Iranians will not surrender because it means sure death.

NP. I can’t imagine why someone would purposely target a school, even with changes to the rules of engagement. But I just read an interesting article with a lot of background on how decisions to gut the military programs tasked with preventing harms to civilians could contribute to mistakes of this kind.

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/the-us-had-a-blueprint-to-avoid-civilian-war-casualties-trump-officials-scrapped-it-partner/

The article is long and a little disorganized. As someone who doesn’t usually pay attention to military/war news, I read the whole thing and appreciated all the background, but for a tl;dr the parts that seem most relevant here are the beginning about how they fired 90% of the staff responsible for preventing civilian casualties and the very end where they mention the normal procedures for mapping military vs civilian movement patterns in an area in the days or weeks before a bombing.

Agree that Trump and Hegseth have made a lot of drastic changes for the worse which is likely impacting US military conduct and use of the US military in force projection.

But by the same token there are clearly posters here who want to instead just broadly bash the US and label us all evil even when many of us did not vote for this and do not support it. It's a deep, dishonest pattern that repeats all across social media right now.

I'm not sure how you really get to that conclusion. Nobody is saying that Iranian citizens are evil just because they're living under an evil government. Same with Russian citizens and their evil government. And same with US citizens and our evil administration.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Israeli society where the majority of the population had supported genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza in addition to preemptive war with Iran. That is one society that is truly evil.

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Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Our first point of order should be holding ourselves accountable for our own behaviors. I know that this is entirely foreign as a concept to MAGA (that is conduct oneself with integrity and responsibility), but the rest of us will focus on how we can be better people before pointing fingers at others to rationalize our misdeeds.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Wars sucks. I wish we hadn't started one.

Speak for yourself. I didn't start one. Trump did - I didn't vote for him. Nor did I vote for any member of Congress going along with this shitshow. But the fact that war sucks and that Trump and Hegseth should be held accountable for it doesn't address many of the other points being made in these last few pages.