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  "path": "/archives/2026-jan-apr.html#17_April_2026_(US_as_war_criminal)",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T08:39:56.000Z",
  "site": "https://stallman.org",
  "tags": [
    "military\nofficers",
    "Nuclear\nWeapons First Use",
    "attempt\nat genocide",
    "out-of-date\nrecords"
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  "textContent": "*Retired military\nofficers call [the bully's] threats against Iran \"likely war crimes\".*\n\n*Congress Must Restrain [the bully] from Nuclear\nWeapons First Use, Says Union of Concerned Scientists.*\n\nThe bully's deranged threats against Iran constitute proof that the attack he threatened would be an intentional attempt\nat genocide.\n\nBy contrast, we know that the US military's bombing of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school was due to out-of-date\nrecords which said that it was still part of the adjacent IRGC base. To have chosen knowingly to bomb a school, in the absence of some specific military need (which did not exist) would have been a war crime, but an error is not.\n\nBy contrast, I tend to think that the bombing of Iran's B1 bridge, a primarily civilian facility, was a war crime.\n\nMoreover, the bully and Netanyahu are, I believe, guilty of the crime of aggressive war.\n\nOne of right-wing extremists today is to erase both the goal and the means for punishing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggressive war. They are so carried away by hate that they regard all attempts to limit acts of hatred as outrageous interference.",
  "title": "US as war criminal"
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