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Pete Hegseth could face a possible war crimes prosecution over a claim that he ordered a second strike to kill survivors of a U.S. missile attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.
The Pentagon chief insisted that all 11 people on board the boat should be killed, according to The Washington Post.
The order was to kill everybody, alleged two people with direct knowledge of the SEAL Team 6 operation targeting the waterborne drug smugglers.
Two people were reportedly clinging to the burning deck of the vessel destroyed by a U.S. rocket fired off the coast of Trinidad on Sept. 2.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-in-legal-peril-over-kill-them-all-orders/
Irish_Dem
(78,440 posts)Miles Archer
(21,173 posts)It's the same as Noem saying that shooting her puppy in the face means she's willing to do what others won't.
People like Noem and Hegseth will create a narrative for their mental illness that not only "justifies it," it also makes them a hero (a "legend in their own mind" ).
The cricket story cost Noem the VP gig, but she stil got a spot at the top. And she got two "FREE" luxury jets from taxpayers!
April 27, 20245:53 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/27/1247666219/kristi-noem-dog-controversy-trump-vp
During a pheasant-hunting trip, the dog went "out of her mind with excitement," and later attacked another family's chickens. And when she went to grab Cricket, Noem says, the dog bit her.
"I hated that dog," Noem wrote in the excerpt. The dog was "dangerous to anyone she came in contact with" and "less than worthless" as a hunting dog.
"I realized I had to put her down," she wrote. The newspaper did not say when Noem said the incident occurred.
According to The Guardian, Noem said she included the grisly story to demonstrate her readiness in politics to do what needs to be done, even if it's "difficult, messy and ugly."
Irish_Dem
(78,440 posts)He loved it and hired her for a top spot in his crime syndicate.
Miles Archer
(21,173 posts)1). The relentless blow-back with Noem as VP would have been "too close for comfort."
2). On the other hand, it's a troll's dream come true. Trump swoons over anything that angers and upsets people. He knew he'd be hearing about Cricket for four years, and Lewandowski. You have to wonder how upset a guy who has cheated on all three of his wives would be when given the choice to appoint an adulteress to his cabinet. Also, we know that Trump has no pets, and that animals don't seem to like him any better than he likes them.
So he wanted her around to keep people agitated and angry, just not within walking distance of him in the White House.
Irish_Dem
(78,440 posts)Theil paid a huge sum to Don Jr to get Vance on the ticket.
Conjuay
(2,816 posts)Mz Pip
(28,312 posts)No witnesses, no evidence, no problems.
Uncle Joe
(63,837 posts)So who in global organized crime would have an interest in seeing a competitor wiped out or diminished so as to be able to take up the slack for themselves.
Sort of like the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, two of Al Capone's killers were dressed as police, they pretended to be law enforcement, just as the *rump administration pretends this is about crime.
I imagine Hegseth doesn't want witnesses to tell what they were actually doing, and if they are/were transporting drugs, who is their main competitor if they have one?
Usually there seems to be more than one gang or cartel, especially on a global level.
That's my two cent take on it.
Buns_of_Fire
(18,942 posts)Besides, it's the manly-man, warrior thing to do, when his alcohol-fueled fantasies tell him that he's a modern-day Conan the Barbarian.
no_hypocrisy
(53,931 posts)Which should come first?
A) Trial in the federal courts,
B) Trial at The Hague, or
C) Remove his citizenship, put in an ICE facility, and then sent to Somalia.
edhopper
(36,927 posts)free to do whatever he wants.
no_hypocrisy
(53,931 posts)edhopper
(36,927 posts)sent to the Hague, and as long as he stays here....
edhopper
(36,927 posts)a pre-emptive pardon Trump will give everyone in his Administration.
Rafi
(258 posts)These are exactly these are exactly the kind of orders Kelly and the others were talking about in their video.
MagickMuffin
(18,033 posts)The order was to kill everybody, alleged two people with direct knowledge of the SEAL Team 6 operation targeting the waterborne drug smugglers.
Why isnt the word allegedly not used in this sentence?
The order was to kill everybody, alleged two people with direct knowledge of the SEAL Team 6 operation targeting the allegedly waterborne drug smugglers.
There is no proof whatsoever that any of these boat murders are drug smugglers. No one with enforcement boarded the boats to determine if there were any drugs involved.
More of the shoddy reporting from the press, that used to make certain they covered their asses by inserting allegedly into every article to protect themselves from lawsuits.
thought crime
(1,059 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,115 posts)on a target of my choice--
ok, I'll stop right here.