The Pennsylvania senator dismissed the demand for further investigation as “moot.”

Senator John Fetterman appeared not to understand why Democrats want to investigate the deadly strike that killed dozens of Iranian children.

During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Wednesday night, Fetterman was asked to explain why he hadn’t signed onto a letter from Senate Democrats that questioned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the February 28 strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, a girls’ primary school miles from Tehran. The strike killed 175 people, many of them young girls.

“Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

Fetterman was referring to a line in the letter describing Donald Trump’s military campaign as “a war of choice without Congressional authorization.” The letter did not describe the war as “dumb.”

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1343·
    3 hours ago

    The headline is misquoting him, the full quote is:

    “Well, because we all agree that it’s a tragedy having the school hit, and we all agree now for an investigation,” Fetterman said. “What I don’t agree with the rest of my colleagues in the House is that it’s a war of choice, or it’s dumb, or all the things my colleagues have described, you know, this operation. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

    Still glaringly stupid, but the headline makes it seem like he’s in denial it happened. He didn’t say the words “leftist” or “craze”

    Edited for accuracy!

    • Glide@lemmy.ca
      32·
      14 hours ago

      Appreciate this.

      Trump’s political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don’t need to be lying just to make our points.

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
      11·
      13 hours ago

      He did say the word “leftist”. He doesn’t say crazed, but he does say:

      “The Leftist media seem more angry and talking about the deaths of these dead school girls than they were about Iran killing tens of thousands of their own young people a couple of weeks ago”

      The clip is here: https://x.com/Acyn/status/2031906677365358825

      All I did was search the rest of the article for the term “leftist” notice it was used, then goto the link the New Republic provided. The question the interviewer is posing is why did all the Senate Democrats signed a letter condemning the US action in Iran except for John Fetterman.

      • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
        81·
        10 hours ago

        "We only murdered a little over a hundred school-children in this one attack when their regime murdered over 10,000. I think it’s a good thing, and I support that.”

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 hours ago

        There is no game, THE GUY VOTED AGAINST HAVING AN INVESTIGATION.

        It doesn’t matter that he said that when he votes the opposite

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
        4·
        13 hours ago

        They don’t want to give the full quote where he does use the term “leftist” (but not craze) - PROBABLY because they don’t want to platform Fetterman’s idea that the media should be doing criticism of other countries actions as much as the American governments actions.

        …a point that doesn’t really make sense, because the fourth estate in democractic countries are supposed to cover criticism of their own governments more than others.