The Trump administration, however, has argued they are lawful under a claim of "armed conflict" with drug cartels.

Let's be clear IF this was an armed conflict (which it very well ISN"T), but let's say it is an armed conflict

President Piggy needs congressional authorization for force

Full Stop

EVERY SINGLE BOMB dropped is illegal.

President piggy told the beautician he sent to an office l Salvadoran gulag and a man with ms 13 photo shopped on his hands were the worst gang members imaginable

LOL. you Dems told us a few months ago that these were fishing boats! so now you admit that they are drug taffickers! and, you are taking their side!

unbelievable

#66 | POSTED BY MAVERICK AT

We don't know who they are

We do know that nothing president piggy accuses them of justifies their murder

He has dementia. He was not calling the shots. He wasn't in charge. It was Woodrow Wilson 2.0.

Do the math.

#46 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2025

You're a lying piece of shit troll

You've always been a lying piece of shit troll

No one respects you

You do the math

Blah blah blahtedy blah"

Do you think this is what a lawyer would say in a trial against Hegseth or anyone involved in the strikes?

Maybe you should just know your place, champ.

#51 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER AT

They killed shipwrecked seamen

The same thing Nazis did

Everything else is rationalization

They were all determined to be legal targets through legal review.
#50 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER A

Not even going to get into whether this administration is trustworthy but the obvious issue with your position is

Cartels aren't terrorists

Of course we don't even know they are cartel members

Every order is illegal and everyone should be afraid of a life in pris

They are not combatants
They are not terrorists
There is no AUMF
There is no imminent threat
The boats are not armed
The victims are civilians
Drug smuggling (if they are even doing that) is not a capital crime
If they are shipwrecked that is another level of murder

Just need to keep things in perspective

The problem being is the vast majority of Americans are ------- stupid.

Every single solitary order to expend force on a boat in the Caribbean is illegal.

Every ------- one of them

There is ZERO justification for obeying these orders

ZERO

Everyone in the chain of command from Hegseth to the man or woman pulling the trigger should be tried for murder

President Piggy is immune from prosecution but should be impeached

TODAY

This is so ------- obvious.

FOR ----- SAKE THE WHOLE ------- OPERATION IS ILLEGAL

PRESIDENT PIGGY WAS REQUIRED BY US LAW TO STOP KILLING PEOPLE AFTER 60 DAYS AND GET CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL

HE DID NOT

EVERY ------- BOMB DROPPED IS ILLEGAL

---- PRESIDENT PIGGY AND ---- HIS WAR

"Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, reported to the White House that the "double-tap," or follow-on strike, was intended to sink the boat and remove a possible hazard to other ships, and not to kill survivors, and a similar explanation was given to lawmakers in closed-door briefings."
If the Commander's intent was to "destroy" the target, this makes sense. This term has a very specific meaning, implying that the target is rendered in such a way that it would be impossible to reconstitute it. Even sinking a ship doesn't destroy it, as it could be refloated and put back into service.
In Afghanistan and Syria, there were times when bombs were dropped on a target because there was a little bit of wall left after a previous strike. So doctrinally, it had not been destroyed.

#17 | Posted by madbomber

Blah blah blahtedy blah

Heinz-Wilhelm Eck [Nazi} and his crew
Trial: A British military court in Hamburg.
Charges and conviction: Convicted of war crimes for killing the survivors of the torpedoed Greek steamer Peleus in 1944. Eck was the commander of U-852.
Sentence: Eck and his officers were convicted and sentenced to death.

We did the exact ------- same thing. Everyone in the chain of command should be tried for murder ---- these people, ---- the cowards not disobeying blatantly illegal orders

think could be court martialed in the next administration for any number of things, including the killing of distressed combatants.

#16 | Posted by madbomber

They're not god damned ------- combatants they are innocent Venezuelan citizens in a boat.

This is ------- murder and everyone should be tried for it.

The illegality is so ------- obvious