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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.[/quote]

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report. [/quote]

It took a few days but they have owned up to it.  Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope.  That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point.  It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions.  Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school.  It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base.  Far too close for safety.  In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location.  Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities.  The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc.  The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.  [/quote]

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid.    Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack?  It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran.  It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

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Oh, PLEASE!!  Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school!  Especially one on a military base!  Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.  
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You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base.  Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.[/quote]

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile??  Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base?  JFC.[/quote]

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll.  The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html
The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.

Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

Satellite imagery reviewed by The Times showed that watchtowers that once stood near the building had been removed, three public entrances were opened to the school, ground was cleared and play areas including a sports field were painted on asphalt, and walls were painted blue and pink.
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It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.[/quote]

150 feet from a base is not co-located.  Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.
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Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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+1  You would think the sports field might have given the US military a clue that this shouldn't have been a target.[/quote]

There is no sports field in this satellite picture.  What are you talking about?[/quote]

You mean in the scam pictures from "bellingcat.com" that a poster is showing as legitimate?  Read the NY times website--they have multiple satellite images posted.[/quote]

:lol:  OMG.  Now you're claiming Bellingcat has produced "scam pictures"?  Here, sweets.  Educate yourself.

From [b]Reuters[/b]:
"In just over half a decade this unconventional news organisation, dubbed Bellingcat, has uncovered the perpetrators of mass murder and human rights abuses."
https://www.reuters.com/article/breakingviews/breakingviews-review-bellingcats-model-upends-journalism-idUSKBN2AC1FB/

Oh, and your beloved [b]NYT[/b] also hails their work:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/business/media/open-source-journalism-bellingcat.html

[b]NPR[/b] too:
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972862453/how-bellingcats-web-sleuths-solve-global-crimes[/quote]

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