WORDS HAVE POWER: ANTI-WAR edition

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The Anti-War edition

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Operation Epstein Fury: 

Source:  James Mellor Cartoonist.  Facebook post

    The war-monger-in-chief and his incompetent, dangerous Secretary of Defense Pete Kegseth) call the illegal war in Iran: Operation Epic Fury.  Many critics understand that this war is in part timed to distract from the horrific sex crimes in the Esptein Files that implicate Trump, his cabinet, and his buddies in the Epstein Class

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WAR CRIMES:  

Screenshot from the video about War Crimes at the bottom of this post. 

Actions that are not permitted by the global agreements about war.  Example:  

• IT is a war crime to injure or kill people who are defenseless.   

• It is a war crime to injure or kill civilians in a targeted attack.  Examples, the killing of the 175 young children and teachers in southern Iran during the early days of the Operation Epstein Fury (the Trump Iran War), is a CLEAR WAR CRIME.  American bombs hit the school precisely. 

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  More information about this heart-breaking attack and source of the photo is here

 

• Then, after the survivors at the elementary school gathered to help the victims of the first attack, a second bomb was sent to "finish them off". 
• IT is a war crime to kill the defenseless by coming back with a weapon.  (PS. The elementary school has been separate from the military compound nearby since at least 2013. ~13 years. Errors by resulting from the use of machine learning in picking targets (AI) might explain the deliberate killing of hundreds of innocent children.  Congress must investigate and identify the war criminals at fault)

 

• DOUBLE TAP-the war crime of killing defenseless victims after having neutralized their threat in a first assault.
• Not only was it murder to kill roughly 150 people at sea in small boats but it was an even worse violation of international law to return to finish off defenseless men hanging from the wreckage of their boat in a DOUBLE TAP operation   

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MORE EXAMPLEs OF  WAR CRIMEs: 

    DOUBLE TAP STRIKE is a war crime.  Wikipedia explains this practice.

A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike (be it bombardment such as missile strike, air strike, artillery shelling, or detonation of explosive weapon or improvised explosive device) with a deliberately timed second strike several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack. 

SHOUTING NO QUARTER:  

IT is a war crime to proclaim the intention: "NO QUARTER" in a military situation. IT IS A WAR CRIME TO execute soldiers who surrender.  

    No Quarter, shouted by Hegseth, in an immature display of war-game bravado, means slaughtering soldiers who surrender.  All laws of war and all international agreement make it illegal to harm and kill surrendering soldiers.

‘No Quarter’ Declaration by Pete Hegseth ‘Constitutes a War Crime’: Experts

“The Pentagon’s law of war manual states unequivocally that such statements are war crimes,” said a legal scholar who previously worked in the Pentagon’s office of general counsel.

Jake Johnson

Mar 16, 202

Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth’s statement last week that “no quarter” will be given to “our enemies” in Iran—a declaration, in military parlance, that surrendering combatants will be executed rather than taken prisoner—constituted a clear violation of international law and a war crime. 

Video ABC news explaining War Crimes.  In depth.

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