Trump Reiterates Threat to Commit War Crimes
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Another pronouncement revealing the contents of Donald Trump’s Non-Interventionist Mindset (R):
President Trump on Sunday evening doubled down on his claim that he would target Iranian cultural sites if Iran retaliated for the targeted killing of one of its top generals, and threatened “very big sanctions” on Iraq if American troops are forced to leave the country.
Aboard Air Force One on his way back from his holiday trip to Florida, Mr. Trump reiterated to reporters the spirit of a Twitter post on Saturday, when he said the United States government had identified 52 sites for retaliation against Iran if there were a response to Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani’s death. Some, he tweeted, were of “cultural” significance.
Such a move could be considered a war crime under international laws, but Mr. Trump said Sunday that he was undeterred.
“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,” the president said. “And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”
I can’t believe he’s betraying the #MAGA agenda like this! Really, the contrast with the consistently pacifist rhetoric of his campaign is shocking:
President Donald Trump has at least twice recounted in recent years a debunked story about U.S. Gen. John Pershing having 49 Muslim rebels in the Philippines shot with “bullets dipped in pig’s blood” as an example to others that Trump claimed ended terrorism for decades.
He mentioned the false incident in a campaign stop in South Carolina in early 2016 (in the video above) and weeks later at another rally in California (when he said terrorism was ended for 42 years). He referred to it again in the White House after a 2017 terror attack in Barcelona, Spain.
I frankly can’t believe that this candidate would turn into a racist maniac who wants to bomb various Islamic peoples into submission.