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Posted on 12/01/2025 4:38:42 AM PST by RandFan
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing bipartisan scrutiny over his reported order to strike a boat in the Caribbean a second time, killing two survivors who were clinging to the ship’s wreckage on Sept. 2.
The Washington Post reported Friday that Hegseth issued an order to “kill everybody” after the initial strike, the first of what is now more than 20 such attacks, did not immediately kill all 11 of the people on board the vessel, leading the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack to order a second strike.
Some Democrats and a senior Republican said Sunday the strike was a possible war crime. The GOP chairs of the House and Senate armed services committees are promising “vigorous oversight” of the incident.
“We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question,” Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chair of the House committee, and Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said in their statement.
“The Committee has directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to the circumstances,” said Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the Senate committee chair, and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), a former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, agreed with Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.), who said the strike against defenseless individuals appeared illegal.
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Are you sure we're not out of step with public opinion on this one?
No different than what FDR, Truman and Eisenhower did...................
They have got Hegseth now. Please, another fake scandal to go with the others.
The problem is he said it out loud.
They could have been blowing up these boats and no one would have known, except the cartels and the folks on the boats.
This is what happens when you treat shit like a reality show instead of a war.
Congress always on top of these important issues that no one in America cares about.
NO...
I am under the impression that the whole laws of war thing does not kick in unless both parties have signed the applicable treaties. I am assuming that the drug cartels have not signed the Geneva convention. Do we really have one hand tied behind our back even when the other side does not reciprocate?
They don't.
You are an op.
Name one moment in FR history where "we" at FR gave a rat's rear end about "public opinion" or being "out of step" with it.
Dont care. The military kills those, outside our borders, who attack us or attempt to damage our country. That is their job. Keep on.
Check out the authors of this piece.
Snort.
It’s a fake story.
The military-industrial profiteers have great support from their paid lackeys on both sides of the isle, almost as bad as drug companies.
They hate Hedgeseth because he is a threat to their boondoogles.
This is just BS from them trying to get traction that their purchased representatives.
Most Americans don’t give a rats bazoo about a bunch of cartel drug runners. Good riddance.
Is the media attempting to portray this as an example of an “illegal order”?
:: Hegseth is facing bipartisan scrutiny over his reported order to strike a boat in the Caribbean a second time ::
his reported order ... reported by whom?
What is their responsibility and authority in the actions taken that they know so much?
This appears to be a lie made from whole cloth by the Media.
Akin to the ‘suckers and losers’ kerfuffle.
“the first of what is now more than 20 such attacks, did not immediately kill all 11 of the people on board the vessel”
Hoping for better luck next time.
Gfy. Hegseth should dispatch you next.
Special Forces do a lot of shady stuff; when one is put in charge they just put on display the things they were doing before when the sun wasn’t shining so bright. I think it’s a really bad idea to brand people terrorist and assume that gives you the right to target civilian boats in foreign and international waters for violations of law (smuggling) that only apply in the US territory.
Democrat talking point on all the nets. “If true, it bad”...so you frame the discussion by allegating it without any basis of fact. Thank you communists. We have seen it a million times.
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