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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The Libertarians are on the side of the drug suppliers.
Maybe we should capture just one. Immediately record and post pics of the cargo on Elon’s platform. Hold a military tribunal aboard our flagship. Then hang every particpant from the plane elevator. A new “shot heard round the world”.
A Dem judge would let them go ASAP and there wouldn’t even be a chance to rehabilitate them. In fact, the Dem judges would demand these narcos be sent back to their home countries...
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Not before chris van hollen has a martini or two with the undocumented criminals
WIKI
On 18 November 2016, Flores’ two nephews were found guilty of trying to ship drugs into the United States so they could “obtain a large amount of cash to help their family stay in power”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilia_Flores
She’s the wife of Maduro.
Clearly, you come from La-La Land.
Yes do Americans who die from the drugs that are imported by the thugs who use the boats to import the drugs given due process?
quotes:
Pompey and the Cilician Pirates
Before the appointment of Pompey to the command against the Cilicians, wheat and other import prices were skyrocketing. Fears over captured or waylaid shipments were legitimate concerns.
Upon passage of the law granting Pompey extraordinary powers, the prices immediately stabilized. The people of Rome had great faith in their favorite general to end the foreign threat.
Pompey arrived in his territorial command late in 67 BC with a large contingent of ships. His fleet was so large he was able to split the command between 13 naval legates responsible for various sections of the Mediterranean.
60 ships remained under his direct command, which he used as a mobile task force to flush out pirate activity and drive them into the territorial fleets of his commanders.
Within three months, pirate activity on the western Mediterranean was virtually wiped out, and limited to the far east.
https://www.unrv.com/roman-republic/pompey-the-great.php#cilician-pirates
I don’t think I have ever seen another poster on Free Republic go so swiftly from being someone who was generally tolerated to being someone universally reviled.
If you think clearly about it... Killing everybody on the boat is a ‘humanitarian’ decision. If you do survive the initial strike... You would basically be shark food, and that would be a nasty way to die. With all that blood in the water the sharks would be feeding on you within a matter of minutes.
How much Fentanyl are you good with entering the US?
TOO BAD HEGSETH WASN’T AROUND WHEN THE MASSIVE “CARAVANS” WERE MARCHING NORTH
sure
shuda let them drown
or be shark bait
You do realize they have video of them loading these boats with drugs before they fire. Either you are serious or you are stupid, which is it?
Oversight Committee = Bidders Meeting
I guess we are cutting into their cocaine supply.
This is why British troops refuse to deploy anywhere. Firing their weapons means a court martial.
Surprised the Argies haven’t tried to take back the Malvinas.
How about they take Van Hollen on a mission, drop him on the drug boat for his martini with his friends, and only THEN take action?
All good points, except this “tell Bondi to open a leak investigation tonight”.
Expect her to do anything like... never.
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