Pete Kegbreath lashes out at 'kill them all' report on boat strikes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

U.S Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is lashing out at a report that he ordered military officials to "kill them all" during one of the Trump administration's strikes in the Caribbean aimed a boat allegedly carrying drug cargo.

"As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland," Hegseth, 45, said in a Nov. 28 post on X.

The defense secretary was responding to a Washington Post story citing two anonymous sources that claimed he ordered troops to leave no survivors after a missile struck the vessel, which was traveling off the Trinidad coast, as two individuals were clinging to the smoldering wreckage.

Since September, the Trump administration has attacked at least 21 boats traversing international waters, killing 83 people. Trump and other officials defend the boat strikes as an attempt to crackdown on illegal narcotics flooding into the U.S., but lawmakers from both parties have criticized the administration for providing no intelligence briefings or other evidence about what the vessels are carrying.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseth-lashes-kill-them-153331283.html

[lapfog_1]

1. "discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland,"

They pushed a fucking button you fucking moron.

In international waters, on unarmed civilian boats that never fired or otherwise tried to attack either the USA or the US Navy. You declared them ( without evidence ) to be terrorists and enemy combatants and ordered them to be struck with a missile. After the missile destroyed their boat, 2 survivors were in the water, clinging to floating debris and you ordered them to be murdered.

Both of these acts were war crimes. Even if Trump hands out pardons like confetti at the end of all this, I really hope we arrest everyone in the chain of command down to the person that pushed the fucking button and send them all to the international court to be tried, convicted, and spend the rest of their miserable dishonorable lives in a dark prison.

Shame on you, whiskey pete, for putting young men and women in that position.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Pushing a button to kill fisherman on a boat. This is not bravery or protecting anyone.

This is the military protecting their rank and pensions.
Opposite of brave.

[jmbar2]

2. DEI hire - Drunk, Entitled, Incompetent

[Beartracks]

3. Ah, the "fake news" chestnut. Hey, if *everything* is fake news, then *none* of it is fake news!

If you have to call everything fake news, then that's really more a reflection on YOU.

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[Swede]

5. He recently added murder to his resume.

[nilram]

6. Tell it to The Hague