Rep. Thomas Massie said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon function that works to keep strikes from hitting civilians, and that the predictable result was a strike on a school in Iran on the first day of the war. “There’s no fog of war on the first day,” Massie said. “You’ve had months to identify these targets and pick them, yet they pick a school building on a school day with school kids in it and then struck it again and then struck it again.”
Massie made the remarks outside the Capitol on Monday after introducing eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth.
The impeachment articles accuse Hegseth of breaking the law and violating the Constitution in the conduct of the Iran war, and the school strike on the war’s first day is the centerpiece of Massie’s case. Massie argues the strike was not a mistake made in confusion but the foreseeable result of removing the safeguards that were meant to prevent it. The resolution forces a House vote this week, and the Democratic leadership supports it.
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