Posted on 11/30/2025 2:35:14 AM PST by RandFan
Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) issued a statement Saturday vowing to conduct “vigorous oversight” on Caribbean strikes after a report surfaced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug vessel.
“The Committee is aware of recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” the senators wrote in a joint statement.
“The Committee has directed inquires to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to the circumstances,” they added.
The Washington Post, citing sources familiar with the order, reported Friday that Hegseth gave a spoken directive early in the operation to those overseeing the strikes: “Kill everybody.”
The first mission in September reportedly required two strikes after the first failed to kill all on board.
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Libertarian tears are the sweetest.
I’m with you. And Hegseth.
We are in an existential war against forces that are trying to destroy us. High time to fight back. Killing in war is not murder. This is a concept so simple that even libertarians (and politicians) should be able to grasp it.
The Maduro regime is a proxy for a number of countries and entities that are at war with the United States
The people getting attacked in boats are state sponsored Narco Terrorists infiltrating drugs that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year
There is no such thing as due process for these illegal combatants
They are being dealt with appropriately
If you don’t like libturdarian principles, give ‘em a few minutes and they’ll come up with more.
Blah.
Even PRIESTS recognize it, also.
“after a report surfaced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military to ‘kill everybody’ aboard an alleged drug vessel.”
The word, “alleged”, is not in the correct place.
It wasn’t an “alleged” drug vessel. It was “alleged” that Hegseth gave an order. It’s not like the left ever played fast and loose with the truth, i.e., CREATED FICTION.
I hope you don’t have an awakening the hard way, by losing friends and/or loved ones to the drugs that these boats are bring to our shores. But if that’s what it takes to open your eyes, maybe ...
“Pure state murder where I come from.”
It was an act of war, not murder. This is war. The War on drugs” was officially declared in 1971, then intensified in 1982. For two months we’ve been in a “non-international armed conflict” (NIAC), allowing the use of military force and the law of armed conflict against non-state actors. Congress needs to make this official — and soon.
“Even scoundrels get due process.”
Not enemy combatants.
“Rand Paul is right”
Almost never.
No sympathy for Drug Dealers and Drug Mules
Romans 13:3-4
21st Century King James Version
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works,
but to the evil.
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?
Do that which is good,
and thou shalt have praise of the same,
4 for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
BUT IF THOU DO THAT WHICH IS EVIL, BE AFRAID,
FOR HE BEARETH NOT THE SWORD IN VAIN;
for he is the minister of God,
AN AVENGER TO EXECUTE WRATH
UPON HIM THAT DOETH EVIL.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013%3A3-4&version=KJ21
I'm sure you aren't an idiot. But demanding due process for enemy combatants is retarded.
Rhinos, libertarians, and far left liberals want “due process”? Thousands and thousands of dead Americans who died at the hands of these scum and we should treat the bombing survivors with dignity? Besides, any survivors would have drowned and eaten by sharks anyway. Consider this “mercy killings”.
Pearl clutching human garbage.
You and Rand need to understand this is part of a color revolution op. And maybe you do and are part of it.
This covers the whole episode well. The Hill is just a part of the Leftist megaphone for this aspect of the color revolution they are trying to pull on the polity.
https://x.com/TimOnPoint/status/1994570386239852571?s=20
“Timeline of a deep state hit:
A) a JSOC kill strike is ordered on an authorized target. Not a capture strike, a kill strike - President Obama was quite fond of them btw - 500+ to his name, including Americans.
B) the story is leaked. A leak from JSOC? Probably not - the leak is probably closer to the SECWAR’s office in the Pentagon. The Washington Post begins writing the story.
C) a Soros-funded NGO puts billboards up encouraging military personnel to report unlawful orders… although there are no unlawful orders identified.
D) out of nowhere, the Seditious Six - which includes one presidential hopeful and one former IC member who had direct involvement in the original attempt to destroy Trump - delivers to social media a “don’t give up the ship” video - a public service announcement to all personnel to refuse unlawful orders.
*** the video was funded and produced a Soros funded NGO.
E) Senator Slotkin, the former CIA ghoul, goes on the news and is very careful to state that she can’t identify any unlawful orders that have been given.
F) boom, the WaPo delivers the story claiming unlawful orders.
G) Friday evening, everyone on the left hits social media - with paid amplification - about the unlawful orders.
H) the Sunday shows will be filled with calls for war crimes charges, impeachments, and resignations.
All a coincidence, right? None of it was coordinated, right?
Not all civil wars happen on the battlefield.”
“Rand Paul is right (Again!). “
If we were talking about American criminals, in the U.S.A., you might have a point, I guess. The CINC’s view though, is these guys are pirates in international waters, basically. You might disagree with that, or the response, but that’s how you have to look at it. Make sense now?
If they don’t like orders to kill all and would like to see survivors on trial, then tell the Senators to STOP HOLDING UP TRUMP’s JUDGES...because until then, DOD will have to take care of the ‘justice’.
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