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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(138,854 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:29 PM Thursday

Trump says it may never be known who was at fault for strike on girls' school in Iran

By Humeyra Pamuk and Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was ‌at fault for a deadly strike on a girls' school in ‌Iran on February 28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.

Reuters ​first reported in March that an initial internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab in southern Iran. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe but it has not acknowledged any preliminary findings.

"I ‌don't know that they ⁠are ever going to solve that problem," Trump told reporters.

"I don't know that they are ever going to solve that problem ⁠in terms of whose fault was it because there were missiles flying all over the place, and it's horrible what happened but there were missiles flying all over the ​place," ​he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-it-may-never-be-known-who-was-at-fault-for-strike-on-girls-school-in-iran-230018373.html

STFU Donny

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Trump says it may never be known who was at fault for strike on girls' school in Iran (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday OP
Maybe, because you won't allow a real investigation. sinkingfeeling Thursday #1
He never admits fault, it is his core value. Quite the role model for our children. ☮ walkingman Thursday #2
It was you bitch, the butt stops here... wcmagumba Thursday #3
someone entered the coordinates lapfog_1 Thursday #4
They had Grok choose the coordinates of the targets. haele Thursday #9
Whoever authorized Grok is the one responsible. Norrrm Thursday #13
It is already known malaise Thursday #5
Trump eliminated office to prevent such mistakes. Kid Berwyn Yesterday #35
Funny how M$Greedia ignores these deaths malaise Yesterday #36
Rich White Looking Life. The rest of us are human resources. Kid Berwyn 23 hrs ago #37
Let me guess, a drone from Volodymyr Zelenskyy??? OGBuzz Thursday #6
Or, in a Classic Criminal Inversion of the Famous Truman Plaque, "The Buck Will Never Stop Here"! The Roux Comes First Thursday #7
If only we had guided missiles and bombs, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Thursday #8
It can be traced back to when the Earth started to cool, I'm sure. Inevitable by the time I got there. OC375 Thursday #10
I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't Israel that fed them the coordinates. harumph Thursday #11
Go back to sleep, grandpa. Baitball Blogger Thursday #12
Even if it true,which it isn't, that they don't know whose missile it was karynnj Thursday #14
I'm going to guess EnergizedLib Thursday #15
Our war criminal Whip-poor-will Thursday #16
They were sending a message lame54 Thursday #17
What happens in grandpa's diaper, stays in grandpa's diaper. C_U_L8R Thursday #18
Look in the mirror, Trump. Kid Berwyn Thursday #19
Problem? purr-rat beauty Thursday #20
The debris from the missile said made in Dayton. Blue Full Moon Thursday #21
I can solve it sarisataka Thursday #22
That guarantees that we did it. surfered Thursday #23
It is his fault Johonny Thursday #24
Republican Party tried to pull the same shit when they blew up that children's daycare in Oklahoma City. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Thursday #25
Wait . . . who else would it be? DarthDem Thursday #26
Post removed Post removed Thursday #27
Wtf?! Solomon Yesterday #31
you are full of it hookaleft Yesterday #32
Eat glass. Lick rust. Just fking die! OMGWTF Thursday #28
Oh so it was us. mr715 Thursday #29
Who's the leader of the thugs that murder you and me? struggle4progress Thursday #30
Dah winnah! This needs to be shared. raccoon Yesterday #33
Except the fact was, the school was struck by a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile. Emile Yesterday #34
Oh, I think plenty of Americans know exactly whose fault it is 0rganism 23 hrs ago #38

lapfog_1

(32,071 posts)
4. someone entered the coordinates
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:32 PM
Thursday

and their will be a clear chain of command up from that person all the way to SecDef and the President.

haele

(15,711 posts)
9. They had Grok choose the coordinates of the targets.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:38 PM
Thursday

Plausible deniability. " The AI hallucinated, sir"

Might as well have had a dyslexic recruit, but most dyslexic people I know will ask for an editor second opinion if the information is critical or can cause a PR nightmare if not accurate.

Kid Berwyn

(25,505 posts)
35. Trump eliminated office to prevent such mistakes.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 08:53 AM
Yesterday
Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike

The number of Pentagon employees who focus on mitigating civilian casualties has dropped from 200 people to less than 40.


By PAUL MCLEARY and JACK DETSCH
Politico, 03/10/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has gutted the Pentagon oversight offices that would have investigated the recent strike on an Iranian girls’ school — a move that has degraded America’s ability to protect civilians amid its largest air campaign in decades.

The Pentagon chief last year slashed offices that didn’t contribute to his goal of “lethality,” including the group that assists in limiting risk to civilians, known as the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. Around 200 employees who worked on the issue, including at that office, have been reduced by about 90 percent, according to two current and former officials and a person familiar with the effort. The team that handles civilian casualties at Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, has dropped from 10 to one.

Hegseth can’t close the offices because they are approved by Congress. But he has managed to make them nearly inoperable, according to the people, as the Pentagon investigates its responsibility in what could be the worst U.S.-led killing of civilians since 2003. Iranian state media said the strike killed about 170 children and 14 teachers.

“The fact that our secretary of Defense, that our Central Command commander, cannot actually tell us whether or not they dropped a bomb in this location, that is so unbelievably unacceptable,” said Wes Bryant, the Pentagon’s former chief of civilian harm assessments until last year. “It just points even more to recklessness in this, in the entire planning and execution of this campaign, the fact that they don’t have any idea.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/10/pentagon-iran-school-strike-civilian-casualties-00820780

Kid Berwyn

(25,505 posts)
37. Rich White Looking Life. The rest of us are human resources.
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:32 AM
23 hrs ago

And you know what shakes the big moneymaker.

THE PITFALLS OF PEACE

The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth


by Tyler Cowen, PhD
Opinion in New York Times, June 13, 2014

The continuing slowness of economic growth in high-income economies has prompted soul-searching among economists. They have looked to weak demand, rising inequality, Chinese competition, over-regulation, inadequate infrastructure and an exhaustion of new technological ideas as possible culprits.

An additional explanation of slow growth is now receiving attention, however. It is the persistence and expectation of peace.

The world just hasn’t had that much warfare lately, at least not by historical standards. Some of the recent headlines about Iraq or South Sudan make our world sound like a very bloody place, but today’s casualties pale in light of the tens of millions of people killed in the two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Even the Vietnam War had many more deaths than any recent war involving an affluent country.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, the greater peacefulness of the world may make the attainment of higher rates of economic growth less urgent and thus less likely. This view does not claim that fighting wars improves economies, as of course the actual conflict brings death and destruction. The claim is also distinct from the Keynesian argument that preparing for war lifts government spending and puts people to work. Rather, the very possibility of war focuses the attention of governments on getting some basic decisions right — whether investing in science or simply liberalizing the economy. Such focus ends up improving a nation’s longer-run prospects.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/upshot/the-lack-of-major-wars-may-be-hurting-economic-growth.html

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,787 posts)
8. If only we had guided missiles and bombs, ...
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:38 PM
Thursday

... instead of them being propelled by the Infinite Improbability Drive, then we might know if any were actually aimed at a school.

I agree with Trump. We will never solve that problem, as long as congress can't subpoena the intel and military leaders to appear before fcommittees under oath.

OC375

(1,215 posts)
10. It can be traced back to when the Earth started to cool, I'm sure. Inevitable by the time I got there.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:45 PM
Thursday

What a loser.

harumph

(3,533 posts)
11. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't Israel that fed them the coordinates.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 03:51 PM
Thursday

That's just an assumption, but it wouldn't surprise me. Usually when lying to cover up, the liars put you 2 or more steps from the truth.
It's an old intelligence trick. Look over there - squirrel! AI provides them deniability of intent. How fucking convenient. Too convenient. They're more than happy to play the negligent incompetent using AI for targeting, if it saves their asses. Better to be thought incompetent than a rank murderer. I DON'T BUY THE GROK STORY.

karynnj

(61,223 posts)
14. Even if it true,which it isn't, that they don't know whose missile it was
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:18 PM
Thursday

TRUMP and NETANYAHU started a war of choice while Trump was negotiating with them.

No way, no middles attacking the school.

EnergizedLib

(3,229 posts)
15. I'm going to guess
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:18 PM
Thursday

It’s also the fault of whomever vandalized the reflecting pool.

R.I.P., girls.

Whip-poor-will

(641 posts)
16. Our war criminal
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:18 PM
Thursday

When the whole war is a war crime against humanity made up of multiple war crimes all the responsibly belong to....trump ,the rapist

C_U_L8R

(49,644 posts)
18. What happens in grandpa's diaper, stays in grandpa's diaper.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:22 PM
Thursday

It he’s still stinking up the joint.

Blue Full Moon

(3,793 posts)
21. The debris from the missile said made in Dayton.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:46 PM
Thursday

They admitted to using AI on the strikes.
Isn't murdering humans supposed to be illegal for robots and AI?

sarisataka

(22,994 posts)
22. I can solve it
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:47 PM
Thursday

Since it was the first day of strikes, all we have to do is determine, Who was it that authorized the military to launch strikes in Iran?

That person is the one responsible.

Johonny

(26,861 posts)
24. It is his fault
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 05:22 PM
Thursday

This war was unnecessary and had no goals. He murdered then for nothing. What a fuck faced asshole.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,431 posts)
25. Republican Party tried to pull the same shit when they blew up that children's daycare in Oklahoma City.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 05:30 PM
Thursday

They do evil shit, then can't own up to their fucking evil. For Trump to boast he likes to tell it like it is, he's never man enough to actually tell it like it is.

DarthDem

(5,472 posts)
26. Wait . . . who else would it be?
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 05:48 PM
Thursday

Seriously asking. I didn’t think was actually in doubt or dispute.

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

hookaleft

(1,400 posts)
32. you are full of it
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 06:43 AM
Yesterday

not buying what you are selling. There was no reason to attack Iran. There were negotiations going on and in fact they had reached an agreement so said the chief negotiator on television networks right before the attack. But we attacked anyway And if you remember correctly, at the very beginning of the attacks Trump was bragging about how he was gonna pick their new leader and take all the oil.

0rganism

(25,766 posts)
38. Oh, I think plenty of Americans know exactly whose fault it is
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:44 AM
23 hrs ago

I, for one, hope this well-known instigator of unnecessary violence gets everything he deserves before he passes.

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