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Botany

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7. Rules of engagement should have also ruled out the sinking of the Iranian Naval Ship off of Sri Lanka which ...

Reply to Happy Hoosier (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:47 AM

17 hrs ago

…. 3,000 miles + from the fighting in the Middle East, and posed zero threats to American or Israeli
forces or American, Israeli, or other Citizens. Over 100 Iranian Naval Personnel are now dead.

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US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls' school probably carried out by US forces. Warning graphic. [View all] Botany 19 hrs ago OP

Kill the little girls, then kill the people coming to help them. Irish_Dem 19 hrs ago #1

Air Superiority! displacedvermoter 19 hrs ago #2

just fucking disgraceful and heartbreaking. nt Javaman 19 hrs ago #3

USA is a terrorist state yankee87 18 hrs ago #4

THIS is why we have rules of engagement. Happy Hoosier 18 hrs ago #5

Rules of engagement should have also ruled out the sinking of the Iranian Naval Ship off of Sri Lanka which ... Botany 17 hrs ago #7

At least that was a unabiguously military target Happy Hoosier 17 hrs ago #8

Without a declaration of war what are we doing torpedoing a ship 3,000 + miles from the fighting? Botany 17 hrs ago #11

War Target?? IbogaProject 14 hrs ago #15

Looks like we need to fire those traitorous "investigators". They are clearly trying to make Trump look bad Midnight Writer 18 hrs ago #6

I HATE HATE HATE the warmongering murderers. vanessa_ca 17 hrs ago #9

There was a Republican Guard compound Boo1 17 hrs ago #10

I agree there was no advantage, military or poltical, in bombing the school. Martin Eden 15 hrs ago #13

Certainly not Boo1 14 hrs ago #14

AI without human oversight or with, hard to say blue_jay 10 hrs ago #17

How many Iranian TERRORISTS did Stephen Miller, Trump, Israel, and Saudi Arabia just make? Martin Eden 16 hrs ago #12

Effin monsters malaise 14 hrs ago #16