Posted on 04/30/2026 5:31:24 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) claimed that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had committed war crimes.
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He added, “And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again, a double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage. You know, it’s interesting, Erin, another historical analogy back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed.”
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They won't stop until some of 'theirs' are on the recieving end.
If elections are cleaned up, it will stop.
Deep State has to steal the blue bits for a reason.
How does this guy know the “just purely” reasons our military did anything? Was he in the minds of the people making the decisions?
No assassin would waste perfectly good ammo on low life scumbag Seth Moulton. Would be like taking out the dishwasher at I-Hop. Moulton is a legend in his own mind. /spit
I WISH HEGSETH WOULD TELL THE CONGRESS HOW MUCH $$$$$$$ IT COST FOR THE 9-11 DAMAGES.
FOR JUST THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON, $55-60 BILLION THAT APPARENTLY DOESN’T COUNT THE DAMAGES TO THE BUSINESSES INSIDE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & LOSS OF LIFE IN EACH AREA-—OR THE LOSS OF THE PLANES INVOLVED.
If you think that’s bad Moulton, you should read about what our Navy and AAF did to the Japanese at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
Boulton is a Marine combat veteran with several tours in Iraq. Something happened to him. He is fast becoming the new John Kerry. Sad.
Once again the left shows you who they are. They are the party of crime and truly sympathize with these poor fisherm….errr drug runners just tryin to put yellow rice on the table.
So, CNN trots out their trained monkey to spew such crappola and they get no pushback?
This is like DNC/commie trash (same thing) calling for assassination and nothing is even suggested at Fed level regarding the responsibilities of the carrier of such crappola? This is not solely the fault of the arseholes spewing such murderous intent, but also the station/carrier that put it up or did not cut it off.
Start yanking licenses.
WIKI
This debris could betray the presence of the U-852 to enemy aircraft and shipping patrolling the area. Eck decided to sink the wreckage with hand grenades and automatic weapons. The question of whether this “dispersal” order explicitly or implicitly encouraged the killing of the sailors in the water, or whether this was an unfortunate example of collateral damage, was the subject of a post-war trial. During the trial, Eck acknowledged he realized that by sinking the rafts, he was denying the seamen a chance of survival.
Eck ordered his junior officers to fire into the wreckage in an effort to sink it. Accounts differ greatly as to the number of shots fired and the damage done. The two surviving Greek sailors reported the shooting went on for a long time, and that at least four of their compatriots were killed by it. The German crew’s report stated, however, that they had fired several short machine gun bursts into the wreckage and were unable to see their targets in the dark. The men shooting were later proven to be the ship’s engineering officer, Hans Lenz (who claimed he had done so under protest to spare an enlisted man from having to do it), Walter Weisspfennig (the ship’s doctor who was not supposed to be handling firearms), the second in command August Hoffmann, and an enlisted engineer, Wolfgang Schwender (who was under direct orders and fired very few rounds). Eck was also present during the incident; the remaining crew were below decks.
The operation to sink the rafts and wreckage was not hugely successful, but the submarine was able to evade pursuit, and managed to sink the British merchant ship SS Dahomian off Cape Town on 1 April, this time hastily leaving the scene rather than pausing. A few weeks later on 30 April the boat was spotted by a Vickers Wellington bomber flying from Aden, which managed to damage her with depth charges, thus preventing her from diving. Eck went to the Somali coast and beached U-852 on a coral reef while under attack from six bombers of 621 Squadron Royal Air Force. Of Eck’s crew of 65, seven were killed and the remaining 58 made it to shore. They were captured by the Somaliland Camel Corps and local militia and sent to prison camps to await the end of the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Wilhelm_Eck
In New York State, I had to wear a life preserver according to New York State law when my father took us boating.
I would never have to cling to wreckage.
Note that the RAF people were not tried.
United States subs did the same thing to the japs in WW2.
Its only a war crime if you lose.
moulton is the smarmiest bastard in the congress and while I hate to say it, he should have come back in a body bag.
I know he served well but he has turned into a traitor and with all of the crazies trying to kill our President, his foul mouth is just fuel to the fire.
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I need more information. Is Rep. Seth Moulton merely an ignorant fool, or is he a liar?
It's also very unlikely to have been simply the officers' on board decision: there must be a SOP for using a second torpedo.
The Dems are treasonous, lying and ignorant POS who should be suppressed. It's simply the world's largest criminal conspiracy masquerading as a political party.
And the Japs also.. However, a FEW of them were tried and and convicted, most of them went free. https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-japanese-soldiers-who-cannibalized-us-pilots-in-world-war-ii
The Japanese strafed parachuting US bomber crews in the air and water when they landed. P-38s shot them all down. Screw the Japs, they had it coming.
Agree. But Moulton, A Marine combat vet, would try our WW Eleven combat vets for “war crimes”. The man is sick.
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