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A group of anti-war, US military veterans have slammed what they say
are Israeli interests guiding US military policy, culminating in the
current US-Israeli war on Iran that is putting American lives at risk.
To the public's knowledge, 13 US military personnel have so far been
killed since the war was launched on 28 February, but veterans said on
Thursday that there are likely more casualties to be announced, given
that the Pentagon's three military hospitals in Germany "are full".
President Donald Trump has repeatedly indicated that there may be many casualties and that it's simply the cost of going to war.
After critics blasted the president for wearing a campaign hat while
receiving the first batch of caskets that were returned to the US, the
White House decided that the second dignified transfer ceremony would
no longer be open to the press.
While the anti-war veterans took stock of Washington's responsibility
for starting the war, they pointed to deeply embedded Israeli
operations that they say have become inextricable from the Pentagon's decision-making.
A key example, they said, is the US targeting of the elementary school
in Minab, Iran, which killed 165 people, most of whom were children.
"The intelligence on the target itself was provided to us by Israel,"
former Green Beret and contractor with the scandal-plagued Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation, Anthony Aguilar, told an audience at the
National Press Club.
"They knew exactly what it was," he said of the building, which had
become a school in 2016.
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