WASHINGTON (AP) — Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident.

The bombing of the school and its casualties involving children has become a focal point of the war, and if ultimately confirmed to be at the hands of the U.S., would also stand among the highest civilian casualty events caused by the American military operations in the last two decades.

President Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the attack, later said he wasn’t certain who was to blame, and then said he would accept the results of the Pentagon’s investigation. The issue took on added urgency on Wednesday after the New York Times first reported that a preliminary investigation found that the U.S. was responsible.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
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    Literally another page out of the Iraq War / WMD playbook: blaming the intelligence. Our two moronic TV show hosts running this war told this military to bomb a girl’s school, and the bastards at the trigger opted to follow these illegal orders. That’s what happened.

    Next, when a few drones find their way to the US, they’ll be saying: “They hate us for our freedom!” and just ignore that bombing schools and hospitals radicalizes regular people, same as they ignored it when they caused a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in the 80’s.

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      Next, when a few drones find their way to the US

      If it happens, it’ll 1000% be an AmeriKKKan false flag attack. Even if Iran wanted to, they’re half a world away.

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    The only good thing about Trump’s government is that was the first sincerely fascist government, not trying to hide how shit they are and now they want me to believe in this shit ass excuse?