American Mid Term Election Prediction:
Going out on a limb to say in states with Republican governors, I think a Dem will need to have close to a 10 point lead in opinion polls in order to win. Because of voter suppression, in its myriad forms.
The centrist Dems are betting on Talarico in […]
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![On March 12, the New York Times reported that an “ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school.” Citing sources briefed on preliminary findings, the Times wrote: “The ‘target coding’ provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the military intelligence agency that helps develop targets, labeled the school building as a military target when it was passed to Central Command, the military headquarters overseeing the war.”
The next day, Hegseth announced that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) had launched an internal investigation. “There’s only one entity in this conflict, between us and Iran, that never targets civilians, literally never targets civilians,” he said. “We will investigate. We’ll get to the truth and we’ll share it when we have it.”
CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper told Congress in May, “The school itself is located on an active IRGC cruise missile base. It’s more complex than the average strike.”
Bryant said he has not seen any indication the school was housed on an active missile facility or base. “It’s pretty disturbing to hear that kind of excuse from someone like Cooper who should know better, because it doesn’t matter if a school is on the base and not even closed off, it’s still a protected entity,” said Bryant, whose last position at the Pentagon in 2024 was the chief of civilian harm assessment for the Department of Defense. “Those children, all those civilians, are still non-combatants and protected, so it’s really disgusting to hear that. This wasn’t even fragmentation that hit a school next to another target. This was deliberately targeted very, very clearly and obviously. So at the very least, [it was a] complete mischaracterization of the target.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ifgdgxsbbvghbhjl3i7sc47/bafkreigf5dlumn5moxzigxcdq2dfxye3nq2useik2uhqjwywfr2rxwb64a)
