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8 hours agoHegseth's Iran war talk conflicts with law forbidding "no quarter" ban, experts say
The Pentagon's law of war manual states unequivocally that such statements are war crimes. It's one of the reasons that the United States ensured Germany's senior military officials were prosecuted for the crime after World War II. The best thing Secretary Hegseth can do for the country and for the US military is to say he misspoke and to retract the statement.
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