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Mass grave prepared for the school girl massacre, 165 souls

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Dirtydianaoh · 04/03/2026 01:34

For a nation to say they care about women and girl rights and liberation, and then to bomb a school wtf?!
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olderandwiser83 · 04/03/2026 13:39

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 13:34

Genuinely they are!!!! I can't believe that I'm on a forum, with on the whole other mothers, yet having the view that it is never acceptable to have children as collateral damage is the controversial one.

I was anti invading Iraqi which turns out to be illegal, I was anti invading Afghanistan which ended with a deal by Trump to put the Taliban in place, and anti bombing Iran. I think time will show this will also be a disaster.

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It's not controversial to have that view (quite the opposite in fact), but it's extremely idealistic though, and it doesn't match reality (unfortunately).

InterIgnis · 04/03/2026 13:39

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I'm not pro-Iran. You don't have to take the view of one side is the goodies and the other is the baddies. Bombing rarely if ever leads to a sustainable outcome. Again look at Trumps past he did a deal to put the Taliban in place in neighbouring Afghanistan. Do the Iranians have similar to look forward to? Trump only does what suits Trump.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 04/03/2026 13:48

Dollymylove · 04/03/2026 10:59

And dont all the lefties hate it!!!

Quite, and does that make lefties useful idiots or despite all there sanctimonious declarations of being righteous, actually evil.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 04/03/2026 13:52

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Yup, they show themselves don’t they.

WearyAuldWumman · 04/03/2026 13:57

PurpleAxe · 04/03/2026 05:40

I don't know who bombed the girl's school. But I am interested in hearing from those who are sure the US/Israel did it, on WHY they think they would target a school.

Not whether it was a mistrike/bad intel/debris/Iran itself, or whatever.

But WHY would the US/Israel deliberately fire on a school full of little girls?

Do you think it was strategic? They are just evil? What would be the point?

I have no idea who killed those little girls. As others have said, it could have been either side.

I know that NATO made an arse of things when they bombed Serbia - a mixture of misfires and poor intelligence.

The poor intelligence was where someone looked at a map and thought that they were looking at military targets, but were actually seeing the names of buildings of historical interest, i.e. the old Admiralty in Šabac.

Also in Šabac, they aimed for the old barracks but hit some of the surrounding houses. Fortunately, according to the locals, the pilot realised that he was in a residential area and managed to stop the detonation of the bomb that landed in someone's back garden.

The also mistook the municipal rubbish dump for a weapons dump and bombed that. It happened out of work hours, so no one was hurt.

None of this made newspapers in the west, so far as I'm aware.

In Novi Sad, they hit the hospital and an ambulance. I'm not sure what the explanation was for that - mistaken intelligence or a misfire?

In Belgrade, there were civilian casualties including children - but I don't think that that was well publicised in the west, although the bombing of the Chinese Embassy by US forces was reported on at length.

So far as the embassy is concerned, the US apparently admitted that they'd hit the wrong building - the actual target was less than 500 metres south.*

I think that such incidents tend to be written off as 'collateral damage' unless it's your own people that have been hurt. I hope to God that a civilised country wouldn't deliberately be responsible for a London blitz or Hamburg bombing these days.

*ETA There's a western theory that some kind of secret guidance system was housed in the embassy, hence the locals being able to take down the American Stealth bomber. Locals say that it was just luck - if there had been a secret system, they'd have taken down more than that one plane.

sabababa · 04/03/2026 14:03

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 13:16

You're making the leap. I was responding to posts saying it was ok to kills children because it was retaliation for October 7th when Hamas killed Israeli children an eye for an eye style.

I don'[t think revenge is acceptable reason. You may disagree, as your inclusion of killing babies and children as a "military action" would suggest.

No it was to me pointing out that you described October 7 (which included the murder of babies and children) as a 'terrorist incident' as though a Hamas 'freedom fighter ' had accidentally sneezed on an IDF soldier. You intentionally downplayed the depravity of what happened and then screamed 'but you support killing babies' in response

And then in the best uninformed radical left tradition, you gaslighted everyone as to what you actually wrote

inamarina · 04/03/2026 14:05

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No one is “justifying the US bombing of Iranian children”.
You make it sound as if they’d specifically targeted school girls, whereas in reality it’s still not even confirmed who it was that struck the school, never mind what their reason was.

SnipSnipMrBurgess · 04/03/2026 14:10

inamarina · 04/03/2026 14:05

No one is “justifying the US bombing of Iranian children”.
You make it sound as if they’d specifically targeted school girls, whereas in reality it’s still not even confirmed who it was that struck the school, never mind what their reason was.

I would fully believe US and Israel would bomb school children directly.

Trump and his secretary of war think this is a movie with them as the heroes but they are as thick as bottled shit.

Israel have a history of genocide.

Iran also has a history of genocide.

So its possible its either of them, but not outside of the realm of possibility that they purposefully targeted it.

Children are always casualties of war.

InterIgnis · 04/03/2026 14:10

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 13:47

I'm not pro-Iran. You don't have to take the view of one side is the goodies and the other is the baddies. Bombing rarely if ever leads to a sustainable outcome. Again look at Trumps past he did a deal to put the Taliban in place in neighbouring Afghanistan. Do the Iranians have similar to look forward to? Trump only does what suits Trump.

It did in mine, as it so happens. I experienced war as a child myself, so rest assured I am quite familiar with the realities of it. As a result, I’m disinclined to reduce a complex situation to a simple binary, as to do so isn’t merely naive, but frankly idiotic. I don’t have to personally like everything Israel and America do in order to consider them both inherently better than the Iranian government.

America and Israel wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t in their interest to do so. Not shit. No country goes to war if it isn’t in their interests to do so. The interests of Israel and the USA align with those of the Persians in Iran, the majority of which are very much anti the Regime and its particular brand of Shia death cultism.

Iran is not analogous to either Iraq or Afghanistan. Geopolitically, or culturally. On that note though, Iran happened to be massively funding their terrorist proxies in both countries.

StandingSideBySide · 04/03/2026 14:28

RosaMundi27 · 04/03/2026 11:25

You'll no doubt be pleased to know that this was a failed rocket launch from the Iranian regime. But you're probably sad that you don't get to blame the Americans and the Jewish people for it.

So much propaganda spouting this tosh

sabababa · 04/03/2026 14:32

StandingSideBySide · 04/03/2026 14:28

So much propaganda spouting this tosh

You know that do you? Does it not fit your narrative?
I dont know what happened. The one with all the info is the Iranian regime who also blamed their massacre of unarmed protesters on Mossad....
An American mistake or an Iranian misfire. Both are entirely plausible given where the school is located.

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 14:35

sabababa · 04/03/2026 14:03

No it was to me pointing out that you described October 7 (which included the murder of babies and children) as a 'terrorist incident' as though a Hamas 'freedom fighter ' had accidentally sneezed on an IDF soldier. You intentionally downplayed the depravity of what happened and then screamed 'but you support killing babies' in response

And then in the best uninformed radical left tradition, you gaslighted everyone as to what you actually wrote

You have made that interpretation to twist to belittle. All terrorist incidents are terrible whether it be is 9/11, the London Bombing or October 7. Your example of sneezing is patently stupid.

inamarina · 04/03/2026 14:42

SnipSnipMrBurgess · 04/03/2026 14:10

I would fully believe US and Israel would bomb school children directly.

Trump and his secretary of war think this is a movie with them as the heroes but they are as thick as bottled shit.

Israel have a history of genocide.

Iran also has a history of genocide.

So its possible its either of them, but not outside of the realm of possibility that they purposefully targeted it.

Children are always casualties of war.

What would be the purpose of specifically targeting a school full of children?

InterIgnis · 04/03/2026 14:43

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 14:35

You have made that interpretation to twist to belittle. All terrorist incidents are terrible whether it be is 9/11, the London Bombing or October 7. Your example of sneezing is patently stupid.

‘All terrorist incidents are terrible…and now that cursory payment of lip service has been made, let me continue to give 99.9% of my energy to the ones I find most politically expedient to pay special attention to. Based on genuine grief, of course.’

Linoleum81 · 04/03/2026 14:45

Iocanepowder · 04/03/2026 05:14

Certainly not gullible enough to automatically believe anything that comes from Iranian ‘officials’.

I wouldn’t be gullible to believe the words that come out of the US either

sabababa · 04/03/2026 14:48

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 14:35

You have made that interpretation to twist to belittle. All terrorist incidents are terrible whether it be is 9/11, the London Bombing or October 7. Your example of sneezing is patently stupid.

9/11 was a terrorist incident?.
Perhaps English isn't your first language?
Incident implies a minor, one off event.
October 7 involved a large-scale, coordinated invasion by land, sea, and air with widespread massacres of civilian populations.
Just like 9/11 wasn't an "incident".

Happy to help you with the definition of genocide too as you seem to be struggling with that one as well.

And, BTW, still nothing to do with supporting killing of babies.

Hth and youre welcome.

Stepsisterfromhell · 04/03/2026 14:50

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 08:34

The American's military has stated they don't have a plan for the long term. Trump has no interest in positive regime change. Let's not forget it was Trump who withdraw American troops from Afghanistan leaving the country in the hands the Taliban.

This is not factually correct: President Biden famously made a complete balls-up of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan. They were in there for 20 years and then handed it back to the Taliban. So many dead for nothing.

HappyFace2025 · 04/03/2026 14:50

Israel is not the world's most prolific child killers! Have you not read about Sudan and many other war struck countries where children have and are dying?!

TheIceBear · 04/03/2026 15:00

sabababa · 04/03/2026 14:48

9/11 was a terrorist incident?.
Perhaps English isn't your first language?
Incident implies a minor, one off event.
October 7 involved a large-scale, coordinated invasion by land, sea, and air with widespread massacres of civilian populations.
Just like 9/11 wasn't an "incident".

Happy to help you with the definition of genocide too as you seem to be struggling with that one as well.

And, BTW, still nothing to do with supporting killing of babies.

Hth and youre welcome.

It was widely described as a terrorist incident at the time. Are you actually for real ?

TheIceBear · 04/03/2026 15:03

@sabababa an incident can be major or minor . Perhaps English isn’t your own first language . Look up what an incident is in the dictionary. It does not match your description.

Twiglets1 · 04/03/2026 15:08

TheIceBear · 04/03/2026 15:00

It was widely described as a terrorist incident at the time. Are you actually for real ?

No it was widely described as a terrorist attack and still is.

TheignT · 04/03/2026 15:09

NeelyOHara · 04/03/2026 06:33

This. They actively want it to be the US.

And others just as actively want it to be Iran.

Pennyfan · 04/03/2026 15:09

Bringemout · 04/03/2026 07:05

unfortunately when you put militants inside civilian infrastructure you turn it into a legal target. This is true.

Hamas regularly put tunnel networks under civilian infrastructure and used hospitals and schools to store weapons and operate out of. This is true

Hamas use war deaths as propaganda, we know this because they say so, we also know this because they could have sheltered civilians and they chose not to.

If you attack a population they are likely to attack back and try to ensure you are not in a position to repeat the attack. This is also true.

You may start a fight with an adversary which is better armed and more competent than you. This is true.

Your responsibility is for your own people, the people you attack should not seek to harm civilian populations but equally it is not responsible for their wellbeing. You are. This is true.

There is blindspot with many in regards to the Gaza war and it’s entirely ideological. Iran killed the same number of dead in Gaza within a few days. They were all civilians, this is not the case in Gaza. Yet we didn’t see the same outpouring for dead Iranian children a few weeks ago. I’ve followed both and god knows it hurt my heart to see Gazan children dead or with amputated limbs, it hurt my heart to see the pictures of Israeli children who had been murdered and it hurt my heart to see mums and dad in Iran weeping over their children.

The sad reality is there are people who only seem to care about children when they think Jews or americans may have killed them. We see this with the crying over the death of Khomeini, a man who was responsible for the deaths of many children, he contributed to the purposeful barrel bombing of children in Syria for example, yet no outrage against him. Indeed people like Mothin Ali are going to vigils for the old bastard.

We have ideology masquerading as morality and it is grotesque. Theres no point in trying outrage on me, I’m not a racist so it just doesn’t work.

I agree with this entirely.

Dragonflytamer · 04/03/2026 15:14

sabababa · 04/03/2026 14:48

9/11 was a terrorist incident?.
Perhaps English isn't your first language?
Incident implies a minor, one off event.
October 7 involved a large-scale, coordinated invasion by land, sea, and air with widespread massacres of civilian populations.
Just like 9/11 wasn't an "incident".

Happy to help you with the definition of genocide too as you seem to be struggling with that one as well.

And, BTW, still nothing to do with supporting killing of babies.

Hth and youre welcome.

Maybe it is you that needs to work on your English. Per the Oxford English Dictionary.

Incident: An occurrence or event viewed as a separate circumstance.

Are you saying the police are wrong in referring major incident responses? A terrorist incident ranks above a major incident.

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