Opinions differ after briefing on boat bombing.

[jknowgood]

What the **** kind of boat was it, a damn kayak?

 

[Lesh]

If they can be tracked, why not wait until they land and then seize the boat, the cargo, and the runners?

Or interdict them like we normally do

 

[Mr Natural]

Or interdict them like we normally do

Trumpy likes His spectacles.

 

[Lesh]

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Apparently a drug boat only needs one guy… not eleven

 

[Zincwarrior]

Am I the only one concerned they had to hit a speed boat four times with missiles to sink it?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Odd how retreated to the “leakers” weasel to describe your “sources” which anre unnamed, unknown and not produced.

Because they are leakers. The leaders are the sources.

Nobody is having a problem with these simple English words but you.

And the drunk white supremacist, who keeps calling the leaks fake, then getting the rug pulled out from under him when they are confirmed as real .

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Huh?! Libs were happy when corn pop was suggesting it but not orange man. Just more liberal hypocrisy. Nothing new.

So you hated it when Biden said it, but love that the fat rapist said it.

 

[Lesh]

Am I the only one concerned they had to hit a speed boat four times with missiles to sink it?

Small Boats can actually be hard to sink. They tend to float.

But if your desire is to destroy evidence… you really gotta nail em

 

[berg80]

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Why do you think it is that the regime has yet to present a credible legal rationale for the killings to Congress? Or, perhaps a better question is...........do you give a shit if the regime is killing people illegally?

The Defense Department announced its latest strike Thursday, saying four people were killed in the eastern Pacific Ocean. As with all of the others, the disclosure included no evidence verifying that those on board the vessel were drug smugglers or that their cargo included illegal drugs.

Democrats and experts on the law of war have called the killings illegal, arguing that criminal drug smugglers can’t be treated the same as enemy combatants waging war against the United States, and the footage shown to lawmakers for the first time Thursday is considered a crucial piece of evidence in determining whether the Sept. 2 strike amounted to a war crime.

 

[22lcidw]

The only lawfare involving trump were the maneuvers he and his lackeys used to keep him out of prison.

Thread 'This is what lawfare looks like.'

Nov 7, 2025

The President’s Legal Shell Game to Avoid Accountability​

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Near every Democrat with some power have Progressive socialists and even Communists now and they have a "bias" against anyone who is not. In fact, they jettison those who are not as far left as others. You jettisoned Musk who was a hero for the green deal. The green deal went on the backburner after the endless spending and the suffering you put people through. I t will be interesting to see if the new governor of New Jersey will spring for beach replenishment or it will depend on Trump for it. And the residents on the Jersey coast do not want windmills in the ocean close to them.

 

[berg80]

We should lose sight, with all the focus of the second Sept. 2 boat bomb killing the helpless survivors, that the first strike was also illegal.

 

[jknowgood]

Apparently a drug boat only needs one guy… not eleven

Lol, there is probably over a million dollars worth of drugs on that boat. One guy? You're a funny guy.

 

[jknowgood]

Why do you think it is that the regime has yet to present a credible legal rationale for the killings to Congress? Or, perhaps a better question is...........do you give a shit if the regime is killing people illegally?

The Defense Department announced its latest strike Thursday, saying four people were killed in the eastern Pacific Ocean. As with all of the others, the disclosure included no evidence verifying that those on board the vessel were drug smugglers or that their cargo included illegal drugs.

Democrats and experts on the law of war have called the killings illegal, arguing that criminal drug smugglers can’t be treated the same as enemy combatants waging war against the United States, and the footage shown to lawmakers for the first time Thursday is considered a crucial piece of evidence in determining whether the Sept. 2 strike amounted to a war crime.

How many Americans lives were saved blowing that boat up? How do y'all say it, if it saves one life, it's worth it. Anyway it how can people that support killing a baby in the womb up till conception. Care about drug runners lives?

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

R's are circling the wagons.

Top military officers show lawmakers video of the Sept. 2 boat attack.​

Top military officers showed senior members of Congress a video of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, including a follow-up strike that has been at the center of a growing debate over the Trump administration’s lethal mission.

But Republicans and Democrats left the closed-door meetings drawing starkly different conclusions after watching the unedited video of the initial strike on the boat on Sept. 2 and the follow-up that killed the survivors and sank the boat.

Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the attack “highly lawful and lethal.” He said the video showed two survivors trying to flip a boat “loaded with drugs bound for the United States.” The follow-up missiles were “exactly what we’d expect our military commanders to do,” Mr. Cotton added.

Representative Rick Crawford, Republican of Arkansas and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said there was “no doubt” in his mind that the Defense Department was carrying out the strikes in a “highly professional manner.”

But Democrats exited the briefings even more concerned about the campaign against drug smugglers that to date has included strikes on 21 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that have killed 83 people.

Representative Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee who for years has been read in on sensitive counterterrorism and covert operations, told reporters that the Sept. 2 attack video was “one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
“You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States,” he said.

Imagine my surprise that R's and D's can look at the same video and reach different conclusions. It's a metaphor for the times we live in. Facts can not be agreed upon.

It's interesting how much Democrats have changed. Back in 1989, Biden called for striking the drug lords ("narco-terrorists") on their home turf....

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It's interesting how much Democrats have changed. Back in 1989, Biden called for striking the drug lords ("narco-terrorists") on their home turf....

So you hated when Biden said it, loved it when Trump did it.

Figures.

 

[Billiejeens]

How would you explain the Admiral taking responsibility for murder?

That didn't happen.

Damn.

 

[Mr Natural]

How would you explain the Admiral taking responsibility for murder?

Sucking up to the boss in hopes of getting that extra star.

 

[rightwinger]

If what Cotton said is true then US law allows for the extra judicial killing of defenseless human beings.

Our soldiers should take notice

 

[Winston]

Small Boats can actually be hard to sink. They tend to float.

But if your desire is to destroy evidence… you really gotta nail em

Tarleton's quarter. Time repeats itself. The Massacre at Waxhaw, a battle in the Revolutionary War. In my opinion, well formulated, the turning point of the war. In South Carolina, the Butcher Tarleton, that is what he become known as, and a militia flag from a South Carolina unit was flown in his descendants home until a man called Roy Cooper showed up as AG for North Carolina. Now, we have it, just like we have our copy of the Constitution, taken from some descendant of a Yankee soldier after he tried to put it on Ebay.

Tarleton's quarter. Hamilton was Washington's Aide to Camp, his personal secretary. He was tasked with going into the Carolina's, finding how many Patriots the Army could recruit. He came back, his report, zero. But then Tarleton did his thing. Got pinned under his horse after it was shot out from under him. Patriots were surrendering in mass, Loyalist, not British regulars, they killed them anyway. It was a massacre. The numbers reflect as much. The British, like I said all loyalist, and the Patriots, Continental Army. That would never be repeated.

Legend has it, Andrew Jackson, just a kid, witnessed the whole thing. And during the War of 1812, in New Orleans, he got his retribution. Regardless, that single incident, "no quarter", lit a fire under the ass of recruitment for the state Militias, North Carolina first and foremost. And we bought it home, pissed off, the story of the Battle of King's Mountain is a book in and of itself.

Ironic, now we find ourselves on the exact opposite end of the spectrum. I mean lost in everything, the whole extrajudicial killing of a drug smuggler is completely ignored. But yes, it is a war crime, plain and simple, to attack survivors of a sunken ship. Radio contact, recovering contraband, you show me the exemption in the UCMJ, in treaties that we are a party to. It is not there. Those people are helpless. You can rescue them, imprison them, maybe even execute them under a military tribunal, but no, you can't attack their ass floating in the damn water. ****, get a grip.

 

[kyzr]

We should lose sight, with all the focus of the second Sept. 2 boat bomb killing the helpless survivors, that the first strike was also illegal.

LINK?? Hint: nothing was illegal dumbass. Drug runners killed 100,000 Americans a year, they are legal targets.