Posted on 12/01/2025 2:52:32 PM PST by DFG
The anti-military sentiment that had been percolating for months on the set of ABC’s The View boiled over a bit on Monday. The suspiciously timed and anonymous accusations about alleged orders from War Secretary Pete Hegseth about eliminating alleged cartel drug smugglers from Venezuela gave the liberal ladies all the cover they needed to accuse American service members of “flat-out murder” and “war crimes.” All while admitting they were completely ignorant about international law.
Fresh from shooting a soap opera in Italy, moderator Whoopi Goldberg led into the segment by suggesting other countries felt bad for America and alluded to America living under a dictatorship like Italy did:
GOLDBERG: Oh yeah. But, you know, this is the thing about other countries, they've lived through this. They've gone through this.
HOSTIN: You said that.
GOLDBERG: They know what this is like and they're just biding their time saying when the people decide enough is enough, it will be enough.
“But apparently while I was gone some horrifying things happened,” Goldberg declared, using air quotes to describe how Hegseth had, “taken a lot of heat over a report that he had an order to kill everyone on board a Venezuelan boat of ‘alleged’ drug traffickers, which led to a second strike that killed the two survivors.”
Ignoring the fact that the U.S. had declared drug cartels to be terrorist organizations, pretend independent co-host Sara Haines bloviated about how “we are not at war with Venezuela.” Then, without evidence, she accused all the service members involved of “flat-out murder” and “war crimes.”
Haines also boasted that “this is why those Democratic vets put out that video last week that … they can refuse to act on an illegal order.”
Of course, as the token former federal prosecutor, co-host Sunny Hostin’s job was to use her credentials to launder their accusations as a legal certainty.
Despite admitting that she “can’t speak to the law of it” because she never practiced international law, maritime law, nor studied the Uniform Code of Military Conduct or the Law of Armed Conflict, Hostin spoke with exacting certainty of what the law was, how it was to be carried out, and suggest service members were criminally liable now:
[Y]ou are supposed to take those fighters as war criminals, prisoners of war, and you are supposed to give them refuge and you're supposed to take care of them and then you are supposed to put them into a court of law. Instead, they killed them.
That means the person who gave the order can be held accountable and put in prison, and that means the person that conducted -- the people who conducted the orders that pulled the trigger are also responsible and can be held accountable. So, now you have people that are serving their countries, that are serving this country as patriots, perhaps following an illegal order and then themselves can be court-martialed! Imagine that!
Goldberg went a step further and suggested that those service members were intentionally hung out to dry by the administration, which Hostin agreed with:
GOLDBERG: Well, what he has done is he's set them up.
HOSTIN: Yes.
GOLDBERG: He has set them up.
HOSTIN: If it's true, yes.
Hostin would go on to falsely claim the strikes happen “In the Venezuelan waters,” when they actually happened in international waters. “So this is not new, but he's setting our people up and it's not pretty,” Goldberg proclaimed after hearing about the strikes on 22 other boats.
Goldberg was right when she said “this is not new,” but not in the way she thought. During the Obama years, the administration bent the rules about regarding air strikes when they were bombing Libya in 2011. And The View didn’t express outrage back then.
The View’s hypocrisy wasn’t new either.
So, Vietnam again?
Their collective IQ’s wouldn’t fill a thimble. It’s amazing that the involuntary actions of their pea brains can keep them alive.
This attitude is what got the two soldiers shot in Washington, DC.
During the war in Afghanistan and Iraq the Democrats called for soldiers to be trued under the ICC constantly.
Plan B color revolution
The View aka The STY
Seals clapping cows 🐄
In very general terms, you might agree with what the Seditions Six had to say about "illegal orders" --- they shouldn't be obeyed. Sounds reasonable, right? The military has already addressed this issue, though, and has codes in place to spell out who has authority/responsibility in this area.
But this media assault is more for the masses than the military. This is the right for ANYONE to refuse ANY "illegal order". The "other shoe" right now is "who decides which orders are illegal?"
Why, Whoopie, of course, and Sunny, and left-leaning Congresscritters and federal judges.
POTUS? Not hardly.
Half of America probably believes the same thing
They are trying to get more killed.
If anyone should be in prison, it’s Schwartz Gyorgy and the Clinton crime cartel.
I found a passage in Amos which describes the members of the View to me. Verses 4:1-3 say, ”Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring now that we may drink!’ The Lord God has sworn by his holiness, “Behold the days are coming upon you when they will take you away with meat hooks, and the last of you with fishhooks. You will go out through the breaches in the wall and be cast into Harmon declares the Lord.
These wicked ladies have blood on their hands, big time!
Key actions include:
Libya Intervention (2011): Obama initiated a sustained bombing campaign as part of a NATO operation to enforce a no-fly zone and protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi's regime. The administration argued this was not a "war" in the constitutional sense requiring congressional authorization but a limited "kinetic military action" under his authority as commander-in-chief and for foreign relations, consistent with a UN Security Council Resolution. This interpretation was highly controversial and drew bipartisan criticism for bypassing the War Powers Resolution's 60-day limit on unauthorized military action.
Expansion of Drone Strikes: His administration significantly increased the use of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia to combat terrorism. These operations were generally justified under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed after the 9/11 attacks, a broad interpretation that allowed for actions against associated terrorist groups beyond the initial scope of Afghanistan.
Operations Against the Islamic State (ISIS): In 2014, Obama authorized airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and later deployed U.S. Special Forces to Syria. While Congress passed a bill to arm and train Syrian rebels, it explicitly stated this was not an authorization for the introduction of U.S. troops into hostilities. The administration proceeded using existing authorities, leading to further debate over constitutional war powers.
Special Forces Deployments: The U.S. also deployed special forces to Central Africa to assist in the capture of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army, another action taken without specific congressional approval.
I guess THE VIEW would have called for prison—for the crews that dropped the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Not to mention all the many crews that bombed Tokyo in WW2.
Not to mention all the flight crews that bombed Dresden and Berlin—since civilians were killed in all of the above.
Not to mention all the drone operators that Obama used to kill hundreds of civilians. THE VIEW would need a really, really big prison.
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