President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter in Israel on Wednesday what made him confident that the Israelis weren’t behind the explosion that killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.

Biden responded that it was “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”

Two U.S. officials told ABC News the Pentagon independently concluded the Gaza hospital blast was likely caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short of its target.

  • @assassin_aragorn
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    141 year ago

    Just like Iraq had WMDs.

    This line really doesn’t mean that much anymore after critics used it to say the claims that Russia was going to invade Ukraine were untrue.

    Healthy skepticism is warranted, but let’s not use arguments that have become hollow.

    • @rambaroo
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      01 year ago

      It’s not a hollow argument, the US has a long history of blatantly lying for political reasons. And the Iraq lie resulted in the US murdering 1 million+ Iraqis, acting like it’s irrelevant because you don’t want to hear criticism of the US is a bullshit response.

      • @assassin_aragorn
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        11 year ago

        And people repeatedly said this about the US claiming Russia was going to invade Ukraine. How did that go?