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Hypocrisy Bomb:
When Obama or Clinton Bombed Power Grids, NYT Cheered. Trump Threatens It? “War Crimes!”
Hypocrisy Bomb: When Obama or Clinton Bombed Power Grids, NYT Cheered. Trump Threatens It? “War Crimes!” - Flopping Aces
The New York Times escalated its Iran support yesterday, in a treasonous story headlined, “Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran.” Exactly what
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The Times was definitely not reveling after reading a short but provocative Easter post from Trump directed at the Iranians. In three sentences, he dropped an F-bomb, called the mullahs “crazy bastards,” and most controversially, mockingly ended with “Praise be to Allah!”— on Easter. It was shocking, blasphemous in two religions, and painful to read, which is exactly what was intended.
But, rather than whine about presidential decorum, social media age restrictions, or worst of all, delve into why it might offend anyone, the Times complained about Trump’s threatened targets: power plants and bridges. “Their destruction by American and Israeli forces would in most cases be considered a war crime under international law,” the Times sagely opined.
In most cases! Not always, I guess. But as we’ll see, the words “in most cases” were doing a lot of work.
In 2015, Obama’s Pentagon updated the Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual. Revised Section 5.6.8.5 said:
Electric power stations are generally recognized to be of sufficient importance to a State’s capacity to meet its wartime needs of communication, transport, and industry so as usually to qualify as military objectives during armed conflicts.
The section was revised three more times: in 2016 (Obama), and in 2023 and 2024 (Biden). Trump’s DoD hasn’t touched it. It says the exact opposite of the Times’s loopy pronouncement.How quickly the Times forgets. In 1991’s Operation Desert Storm, George Bush’s military coalition bombed Iraq’s entire electrical grid on Night One. Power plants were designated as priority targets. But there were zero war crimes charges against Bush or any coalition partner nation. There weren’t even any “revels in war crimes” headlines in the New York Times.
There it was. Finally, late in the story, the Times revealed its whole vile premise: progressives are “worried” President Trump’s rhetoric might “translate” into war crimes. In the future. Even that premise was a lie. If you believe leftists ‘worry’ about war crimes, I’d like to sell you an Everglades wildlife retreat. The truth is, they are praying for a war crimes miracle.
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Here’s your media reading lesson: Every ‘expert’ the Times picked to judge Trump’s Iran policy was already on record as branding him lawless. That’s who the paper presented as the voices of ‘neutral’ legal authority. The story erased the experts from Trump’s side. It didn’t even admit they exist. The Times used to be able to get away with it, because it was too hard to track down who all these crazy people are.
But now, we have AI. So they won’t get away with it for much longer.
The Times invested a whole article predicting Trump’s future war crimes, which is an implied admission he hasn’t done any war crimes yet. But how about Iran? Does the Times ever turn its gimlet war-lawyer’s eye toward the terrorist regime? Even a little?
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Commentary:
That said. The fearmongers and hypocritical Democrats have short lived memories....
Not only Clinton and Obama have "committed war crimes" there are other Democrats presidents that preceded them that also caused the deaths of civilians.
Did Democrats complain when both the Brits and U.S. firebombed the cities of Dresden, Hambourg and Berlin, or our B-29's firebombing Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe?
These firebombings of cities caused the direct deaths hundreds of thousands of civilians directed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Then there's Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, targeting military and civilian sites in Hanoi and Haiphong from December 18 to December 29, 1972, during the Vietnam War.
Where were Democrats then as compared to now?
Is it Trump's responsibility to hold back because the Iranian regime, whatever is left of it, uses civilian hostages to remain on bridges and power grids that are to be bombed.
Iran is making sure the world sees these people in front of power plants and on bridges.
Unfortunately for them, Israel has already begun bombing infrastructure.
The USA isn’t planning on starting before 5 hours from now.
According to a few eyewitnesses some, maybe many of these people don’t even realize they are standing near targets.
We’ll see what happens after the first bridges and power grids get hit.
When it comes to helping terrorist regimes like Iran gaining power, influence, and the ability to spread fear and destruction worldwide, you can count on Democrats to be there to support them.
