{"id":22783,"date":"2026-07-31T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:17:35","slug":"former-jag-firing-on-survivors-looks-like-a-war-crime-w-margaret-donovan-bulwark-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22783","title":{"rendered":"Former JAG: Firing on Survivors Looks Like a War Crime (w\/ Margaret Donovan) | Bulwark Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary of Defense Hegseth has been firing top military people based on whether he thinks their politics align with his. And, he is firing well respected people with great experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first day of the war the US slaughtered Iranian girls in a girls school. This was hopefully a legitimate mistake, but, the US has the obligation to acknowledge what happened and explain it to the public. Instead, Hegseth and Trump refuse to talk about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hegseth may have done his job well when he was in the military, but he did not have the experience to be Secretary of Defense. He also doesn&#8217;t have the personality to be Secretary of Defense. He had problems with alcohol, with his own finances, and regularly publicly spoke like a biased reactionary partisan hack who buys into many falsehoods and exaggerations often told by Trump and his supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former JAG: Hegseth\u2019s School Strike Silence Is DISGRACEFUL (w\/ Margaret Donovan) | Bulwark Podcast\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/II7pGJkV5C8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Hegseth has been firing top military people based on whether he thinks their politics align with his. And, he is firing well respected people with great experience. <\/p>\n<p>The first day of the war the US slaughtered Iranian girls in a girls school. This was hopefully a legitimate mistake, but, the US has the obligation to acknowledge what happened and explain it to the public. Instead, Hegseth and Trump refuse to talk about it. <\/p>\n<p>Hegseth may have done his job well when he was in the military, but he did not have the experience to be Secretary of Defense. He also doesn&#8217;t have the personality to be Secretary of Defense. He had problems with alcohol, with his own finances, and regularly publicly spoke like a biased reactionary partisan hack who buys into many falsehoods and exaggerations often told by Trump and his supporters. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=II7pGJkV5C8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,455,454,221,156,259,2285,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-22783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-department-of-defense","tag-dod","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-secretary-of-defense","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22784,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions\/22784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}