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BumRushDaShow

(172,069 posts)
Fri May 15, 2026, 05:20 AM 8 hrs ago

Pentagon not investigating strikes on schools and hospitals in Iran

Source: msn/The Independent

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The Department of Defense is not investigating U.S. bombings that reportedly destroyed 22 Iranian schools and 17 healthcare facilities, according to the commander leading U.S. forces in Iran.

U.S. Central Command Admiral Brad Cooper told members of Congress that there is “no way” and “no indication” that the military can corroborate reports in The New York Times that detailed the alleged destruction using satellite imagery and verified video and social media footage.

“There is no indication that we have that has been corroborated,” Cooper told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand during Thursday’s Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing. “There is no way we can corroborate that. No indication of that whatsoever, senator.”. His admission comes two months after a preliminary internal investigation linked American forces to a lethal strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed 150 children, according to Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Military investigators believe American forces were likely responsible for a strike that analysts and human rights officials believe is the deadliest incident for civilian casualties since President Donald Trump’s administration and Israeli forces began attacking the country in February.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/pentagon-not-investigating-strikes-on-schools-and-hospitals-in-iran/ar-AA23dbbx

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Pentagon not investigating strikes on schools and hospitals in Iran (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago OP
What's to investigate? Roy Rolling 8 hrs ago #1
Exactly. US military is deliberatly targeting schools and hospitals. Irish_Dem 7 hrs ago #2
oh, they can still investigate they are simply choosing not to. cstanleytech 5 hrs ago #3
Exactly Farmer-Rick 4 hrs ago #5
Shameful. Not even pretending to not target civilians. sinkingfeeling 5 hrs ago #4
Where are the campus protests? DavidDvorkin 3 hrs ago #6
With no checks and balances purr-rat beauty 3 hrs ago #7

Irish_Dem

(82,239 posts)
2. Exactly. US military is deliberatly targeting schools and hospitals.
Fri May 15, 2026, 06:41 AM
7 hrs ago

Just like Putin is doing in Ukraine.

Nothing to investigate.

cstanleytech

(28,585 posts)
3. oh, they can still investigate they are simply choosing not to.
Fri May 15, 2026, 08:27 AM
5 hrs ago

What they forget is that there is no statute of limitations for war crimes with the international courts.

Farmer-Rick

(12,783 posts)
5. Exactly
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:06 AM
4 hrs ago

They may not be held to account by pedo Trump or his sychophants but there is something called the future. And it is filled with unfortunate unexpected consequences.

purr-rat beauty

(1,418 posts)
7. With no checks and balances
Fri May 15, 2026, 10:56 AM
3 hrs ago

Then let their balances sink with no checks

They are BEHOLDEN to the American people
They SERVE our Country and Constitution
We PAY them to do this
It is NOT acceptable to gaslight US

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