if the strikes on the boats fall under counter-threat finance, they're legit targets.
Posted by madbomber

You're parroting Trump, do you do that on purpose, or do you just think alike?
You're also parroting you, when you falsely claimed the strikes on civilians in Afghanistan drug manufacture were legal.

"The claim that boat strikes are legitimate targets under "counter-threat finance" is not supported by prevailing legal analysis in the provided context. While the Trump administration argues that drug trafficking funds terrorist activities, legal experts and international bodies assert that merely transporting drugs or financing a group does not make civilians lawful military targets absent an active armed conflict." -- AI Summary

"Anwar Al-Awlaki was not an innocent man."
He went to court and was found to be innocent?
#64 | Posted by madbomber

That's not how the "presumption of innocence" works.
But your comment effectively underscores the difference between targeting expertise and legal expertise.
So you've got that going for you.

Anyone else here have targeting experience??? Other than me?
#66 | Posted by madbomber

Targeting experience is not legal expertise.
You lied about the attack in Afghanistan being legal under international law.

"The people weren't the target, the trucks were."

And that's why the WTC was a valid military target on 9/11.

No people were targeted.

Public Health is Woke.

It really makes the Capitalists mad when they're faced with the fact that sanitation, not the free market, is responsible for the doubling in human life expectancy in the 20th century.

Certainly you are intelligent enough to see this.
#52 | Posted by donnerboy

He thinks he's intelligent enough to see around it.
He thinks wer're dumb enough not to notice what he's doing.

Ever have an older brother hit you in the arm, and say I didn't hit you, I hit your shirt, and your shirt hit you?
That's how MadBomber understands the world.

"How much Time, Effort and Expense, do you think Uncle Sam put into deploying a drone 7,000 miles from North America to Yemen to kill Two people, one by Mistake?"

In a year, the military spends about one-fifth of what we spend on health care.

If the commander ordered a re-strike because the task was to destroy the ship, and the ship had not been destroyed...not a war crime.
#48 | Posted by madbomber

^
That's the type of nonsense you'd find in a John Yoo Torture Memo.

Firing on shipwrecked survivors is a war crime. Saying you were only trying to completely destroy the ship that the shipwrecked survivors were clinging to is a distinction without a difference.

"what kind of ------- ------ of any race or orientation, is walking around strapped and sucking down hard liquor on their way to work?"

^
The twenty to thirty percent of police who have substance abuse disorders do that.

Pretty sure America has murdered more than 2 Americans.
#42 | Posted by donnerboy

Police kill an average of two point seven people every day.

The Son was killed in a separate attack two weeks later.
#40 | Posted by Effeteposer

Gotcha. "U.S. officials later stated the strike mistakenly targeted an Egyptian al-Qaeda figure who was not present, and that they were unaware the teenager was there."

You still have more crocodile tears to shed, though. Or maybe this one doesn't count since it wasn't Biden?

"Anwar al-Awlaki's other child, 8-year-old Nawar al-Awlaki, also a U.S. citizen, was killed in a 2017 U.S.-authorized raid in Yemen."

"Was that a "One Off" Too?"

Yes. One shot, two kills.
Unlike what Trump is doing. Over sixty shots, over 200 kills.

Again, valid military targets, and legal IAW with international humanitarian law.
#8 | Posted by madbomber

Not sure if you're deliberately lying, or simply willfully ignorant. Perhaps both.

"the results are impossible to hide."

^
This is such a clever statement, because it doesn't actually say what the results are.

People who don't use their critical thinking skills -- Trumpers -- eat this pablum up like it's mana from heaven.

Here is how MAGA politics works:
"It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response."

Do you consider yourself a valid military target?
#21 | Posted by madbomber

This isn't about me.

Do you consider a boat alleged to be full of drugs a valid military target?

Womp Womp.

Again, the boat is the target. Not the people.
#22 | Posted by madbomber

Incorrect.
Not sure if you're deliberately lying, or simply willfully ignorant. Perhaps both.

Regardless, if people weren't the target, we wouldn't be making a second pass to kill the shipwrecked survivors.
Which is a war crime, even in war.

The US sunk around 1100 merchant ships during WWII. Never gave the sailors on board a trial.
#28 | Posted by madbomber

So who are we at war with in 2026?