"Kill everybody"

[Brenda]

The blame for this Apocalypse Now behavior is not only on Defense Secretary Hegseth, but everyone else involved. According to Heather Cox Richardson:

Today, Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill everybody.” A missile strike shattered the boat and set it afire, but two men survived. A second strike fulfilled Hegseth’s order.
According to Horton and Nakashima, the commander, Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, said “the survivors were still legitimate targets because they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo.” In a report, the Joint Special Operations Command said the second strike was not to kill survivors, but to remove a navigation hazard.

Former military lawyer Todd Huntley, who advised special operations forces for seven years, told the Washington Post journalists that the strikes against civilians amount to murder because the U.S. is not at war, while even during wartime, killing those who cannot fight back is a war crime.

Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA), a Marine Corps veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said: “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.” Hegseth dismissed the story as “fake news.”

Men clinging to boards from their shattered fishing boat bombed by the world's largest military super power could --

DO WHAT DID YOU SAY MOTHERFUCKER? CALL FOR SOMEONE TO GET THEIR DESTROYED CARGO OF FISH?

The second strike was not to kill survivors -

BUT TO VAPORIZE THE WRECKAGE OF THEIR SMALL FISHING BOAT AS A NAVIGATIONAL HAZARD TO THE UNITED STATES NAVAL FLEET?

The outrageous lies continue.

[Dear_Prudence]

1. Sink the (lack of) evidence.

Dead men tell no tales.