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imanamerican63

(15,882 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:12 AM Dec 7

"The boat was a military target"?

Admiral Bradley told Lawmakers that the “alleged drug boat” was a military target and that the boat was not headed to the United States.

Wow! Just wow in the world is that justified?

Bradley said that it took 3 or strikes to sink the boat, but the survivors were killed in the second strike.

Again how is that justified?

This regime has no control of any part our government. If Hegseth gave the order to “kill everyone” and Trump approved this order? The only thing to do is hold them accountable, Bradley included?

The whole thing stinks to high heaven and this country is in danger even more now than ever before. I hate to see the retaliation that we may see from this?

This Dept of Defense is a loose cannon and so incompetent to even begin to explain this away.


Story from NBC News.



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Walleye

(43,831 posts)
1. Nobody is shooting at us!!!
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:15 AM
Dec 7

It can’t be armed conflict because no one is shooting at us not a bullet not a bomb nothing. Americans take drugs voluntarily

Blues Heron

(8,388 posts)
2. They are so demented! they are going to get us nuked if we keep acting like a murderous rogue country
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:16 AM
Dec 7

sop

(17,437 posts)
3. Reagan's War on Drugs and Bush's War on Terror have merged, it's now Trump's War on Narco-Terrorists.
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 09:01 AM
Dec 7

Declaring anyone to be both a drug dealer and a terrorist justifies killing them extrajudicially, even after the fact.

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