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Hegseth Speech BACKFIRES Spectacularly As Military Claims Called Out By Right-Wingers
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6:33Now PlayingDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth's press briefing collapses into chaos with alarming military claim that gets called out by legal experts and some right-wingers, including Greg Kelly, for Hegseth's recklessness amid reports Hegseth slashed key offices that could help prevent mass casualty events. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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‘No Quarter’ Declaration by Pete Hegseth ‘Constitutes a War Crime’Experts
"Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth’s statement last week that “no quarter” will be given to “our enemies” in Iran—a declaration, in military parlance, that surrendering combatants will be executed rather than taken prisoner—constituted a clear violation of international law and a war crime.
The International Committee of the Red Cross explains that “the prohibition on declaring that no quarter will be given is a longstanding rule of customary international law already recognized in the Lieber Code, the Brussels Declaration, and the Oxford Manual and codified in the Hague Regulations.” The Hague Convention of 1907, to which the US is a party, says it is “especially forbidden” to “declare that no quarter will be given.”"
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