Hegseth’s Iran War Plan and Alleged Law of War Violations

'Cause Pete Hegseth came in and said, "We won't have to do that.

The Israelis have told me that they're going to kill Khamenei on day one."

Nobody in the Pentagon said, "Hey, we can't do this," 'cause if they straight, if they close the Strait of Hormuz, there's no way we're gonna be able to stop them from unclosing it. You know?

Everybody in the Pentagon said that. Yeah. Then why would, why did we do it?

Because Pete Hegseth came in and said, "We won't have to do that.

The Israelis have told me that they're going to kill Khamenei on day one."

Uh- "We're gonna h- come in with the most massive air power ever seen.

It is because we wanna hit 1,000 points on the ground a day- Mm ... for a period of time to create the impression of American invincibility, and the Iranians quit, and that way we don't have to do any of this."

Just so you understand, one of those thousand points was a girls' school.

It should never have been struck. Yeah, I know.

We struck hospitals, the whole thing. This is the most criminally minded war plan in the history of war plans.

Is it criminal or stupid, or both? Criminal. When you're the Secretary of Defense- Mm ... and you're required by... You know, we have a Law of Warfare Act.

If you violate the Geneva Conventions grossly, there's a death penalty.

Hegseth came in and said, "I'm doing away with all the rules.

I'm disbanding that unit. We're gonna disregard the Law of Warfare manual.

We want increased lethality." And so when he said, "We're going to put 1,000 bombs on 1,000 targets a day," he was saying, "I don't care what you kill. We kill things and break things," he said.

"That's what we do." Ugh. There was intent, criminal intent, from the very start.

So this was criminal and incompetent. What I don't understand is why the JCS didn't resign en masse.

This is a leadership failure on the part of the most senior military officers, and now they're in a situation where they're gonna have to try and do something they know they can't do. If we send Marines across the beach- Yeah ... and they die, people need to go to jail.