• underisk@lemmy.ml
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      23 days ago

      How many times have US politicians experienced consequences for committing war crimes?

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    But as the Trump administration began its boat bombing campaign, the order Hegseth gave “was to kill everybody,” one of the intelligence analysts told the Post.

    Some of Hegseth’s tattoos have been analyzed as being symbols of Christian Crusaders. The orders to kill all survivors doesn’t seem much like the Christianity that folks teach their kids in Sunday schools. It’s much darker, much more like the Old Testament than the New. It’s sort of fascinating that Trump is openly attacking the First Amendment and the press, while putting a Christian Crusader in charge of the U.S. military, which reminds us of the lack of regulation surrounding religion, also part of the First Amendment. Thou shalt not kill is one of the 10 commandments, which various states are trying to post in public school classrooms, but here we have an open Christian giving orders to kill.

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      Rhymes perfectly with the Albigensian Crusade: “Kill them all for ‘the Lord knoweth them that are His’”.

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    I can’t think of a single time since I’ve been alive that the US hasn’t been committing war crimes

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    If there’s no war, can it be considered a crime? In either case, we need better accountability instead of a demented old man running things for another demented dictator