Hegseth Ordered Second Strike to Kill Caribbean Boat Survivors
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The drunkard is the I and A in DEIA. |
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He wasn't DEI. He was however a smart, patriotic man not prone to a swarmy conman and his sidekick puppet. |
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Neither is anyone else accused of being a āDEI hireā. But I agree with you - he seems like a man with a moral compass who quit rather than follow illegal orders |
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Late summer or early fall the Coast Guard intercepted and boarded a vessel--ACTUALLY following the statute that applies to drug interdiction in international waters. They seized 50 tons of cocaine and arrested 86 people. Big boat=connections to people with the money to buy or hire it. How many small boats would it take to haul that quantity of drugs? What are the odds that most of the people on the small boats were primarily not drug traffickers but fishermen and other coastal peoples with little money who were willing to take a gamble for $500 to support their families?
Let's say that the typical DEA operation carrying out a large scale investigation in an American city, instead of building a multi-count indictment against dozens of people, instead blasted every 12 year old lookout on a street corner, every dude in a car delivering the goods to customers, or just blew up suspected contact points for people higher up the chain. OIs what they're doing any more ok because they're not doing it on US soil? |
Anonymous
And the Army officer who single-handedly stopped - by putting his body between Calley and the villagers - and then exposed the massacre, Hugh Thompson Jr., suffered harassment and was not recognized for his heroism until 30 years later. Oliver Stone was going to make a movie about My Lai, with the working title āPinkvilleā, but it fell victim to the writerās strike in the early 2010s. I think Shia LeBeouf was supposed to play Thompson. That would have been an incredible movie. |
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| What is surprising is The New York Times pushing back against the Washington Post's reporting. |
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The target has always been Hegseth, for both Democrats and Republicans.
The initial story was Hegseth ordered the killing of the survivors who were shipwrecked. Now that story has fallen apart, so they are jumping to Hegseth is throwing the admiral under the bus, or that Hegseth ordered an illegal strike. |
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AP says Hegseth claimed "fog of war."
Hoo boy. Once small boat not shooting at the Navy constitutes fog of war for Pete? He really must be drinking. |
Anonymous
I absolutely believe the strikes are illegal, period. And the only falling apart I'm aware of is Pete claiming fog of war and Trump playing Sgt "I know nothing" Schultz. |
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The memo concludes that the U.S. is in a non-international armed conflict with the cartels, and that the strikes are being conducted in line with the laws of war. The head of the OLC also told lawmakers the administration wasn't going to seek an extension of war powers because the administration has determined they don't apply, since the American personnel conducting the strikes aren't in danger.
This is from an NPR article from Nov 17 https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g-s1-97836/venezuela-evidence-doj-strikes-sinking-suspected-drug-boats-assertations So. . . . we are following the laws of war but we don't have to have congressional permission because this doesn't involve war powers because military personnel aren't being targeting (and I guess there can't be war crimes since it is not a war). . .. This is some real through the looking glass shit, it doesn't even make enough sense to be wrong (except that people are getting killed). |
Anonymous
I donāt feel bad for the Admiral at all. People talk like he is some innocent victim but he has a massive amount of military experience and knew better than to follow an illegal order. He, and every person in the chain of command, deserves whatever punishment is coming their way. |
