Good morning. 
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of forty-one. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:36 PM, for 9h 11m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 80.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand one hundred fifty-fourth day.
The Whitewater United School District’s board meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1941, Pres. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech (officially the 1941 State of the Union address).
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Courtney Subramanian reports Trump again threatens to target Iranian cultural sites amid mounting tensions over Qasem Soleimani killing:
President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated a threat to target Iranian cultural sites, which critics say could amount to a war crime, if Tehran retaliates for a U.S. drone strike that killed its top military general.
“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way back to Washington, D.C, from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”
Trump’s comments appeared to contradict Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who earlier on Sunday vowed the administration would “behave lawfully” in regards to a list of targets the U.S. would strike if Iran launched a retaliatory attack for the death of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force.
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The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict makes it a war crime to target cultural sites. The international treaty, created in the aftermath of World War II, says, “Damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatsoever means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind.”
And, according to the International Red Cross, because such sites are “normally civilian in nature, the general provisions of humanitarian law protecting civilian property apply.”
See also John Bellinger, Attacking Iran’s Cultural Sites Would Violate the Hague Cultural Property Convention.
Jennifer Rubin writes Why lying about an ‘imminent’ attack would matter:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and State Department subordinates vigorously argued Friday that the justification for killing Iranian general and terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani was intelligence that an attack was “imminent.”
It is easy to understand why such a rationale would be advanced. An imminent threat would arguably obviate the need for a declaration of war from or even prior consultation with Congress. Exercising the right of self-defense, an established principle of international law, would satisfy allies and sidestep nasty questions about violation of an executive order in place with only minor changes since 1976 that prohibits assassination.
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Americans have every reason to be skeptical of anything and everything coming out of this administration. The president has lied more than 15,000 times on matters small and large. Pompeo misled the Congress and American people in suggesting there was not convincing evidence of Mohammed bin Salman’s involvement in the slaughter of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Pompeo repeatedly misrepresented to Congress that progress was being made in talks with North Korea. Moreover, given Pompeo’s own fiery rhetoric that essentially demands regime change in Iran (if not using that term), it is logical to assume this was not a defensive action nor one intended to de-escalate violence. Pompeo needs to come before Congress and testify under oath.