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This would have to be the weakest and thinnest rationalisation to justify the coup de grace administered by the US Navy.

Murderers.

It has to be execution. Prison just means an inevitable pardon.

Bullshit

Prison is the moderate compromise position.

As a soon-to-be boat owner, I will be sure to line the hull with pure, uncut cocaine, for buoyancy.

They murdered these guys because they were witnesses.

Most especially Admiral Frank Bradley.

This is so fucking depraved.

I really don't understand why they couldn't just go to them and take them into custody. What am I missing here?

Eagerly, even.

Nobody involved in this should draw breath.

This weaselly rationalizing should be taken an evidence of their guilt.

No. We are now past that point. Way past that point.

Nah. They are sane. They are also evil and psychopathic.

There is a word for it: evil. These are evil fucking people.

"the logic went" yea... it sure did...

Now do that logic for U Boats - the American survivors clinging to wreckage could have floated to safety and rejoined the war effort so were legitimate targets. Everyone in this chain of murderers needs to stand trial

Seems like a pretty slender thread to rationalize killing shipwrecked people who were clearly out of the fight.

This wasn't Al Qaeda This wasn't The Taliban This wasn't ISIS This wasn't ISIS-K This wasn't Iraqi Insurgents This was dudes in a boat. Who **maybe** had some cocaine. Which didn't have the range to reach the US Not since the Haditha Massacre has the US committed an atrocity like this.

youtu.be/05MD0RB-Lb4

The "justification" story is unravelling. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

It's a cover-up

They kind of backed themselves into a corner after the first unsuccessful strike. If they survived 40 minutes, there became a chance that they might survive longer - long enough to tell a story they'd not like anyone to know.

They were waiting for them to just die and when they didn't die they killed them.

Agree, though it's not a double tap by either definition

i don't think anyone should be given the benefit of the doubt that they were against it and dithered. it's the end of 2025 and anyone that deeply involved knew what was happening

I mean, that seems neither here nor there because they've been broadcasting this stuff gleefully anyway

sure seems that way

Didn’t Hegseth say he was there watching it live?

I wonder if They were waiting to see if they eventually die, and on the first chance of survival -

That's the same way the US uses it in the context of every President since George W. Bush. People acting as if this reprehensible and atrocious war crime is new are being very selective in their outrage.

Gave it 30 minutes with no show of rescue so ordered the Double Tap. International legal bodies view deliberate use of the double-tap to target rescuers a serious violation because - Willful Killing/Targeting of Civilians Failure to Distinguish Attacking Protected Personnel Denial of Quarter

I would need about 0.1 seconds: Oh, somebody is still alive, who is close enough to provide assistance? Not hard, is it? Of course I wouldn't have been in the room anyway. I have no aspirations to visit The Hague.

41 minutes of hi-def video also completely disproves their “fog of war” justification

That sounds so fucking lame , it must've come from trump

I’ll never vote for a republican ever, but if anyone thinks that a future Democratic administration would ever prosecute these fucking war criminals/murderers, they’re dreaming. Can you say Abu Ghraib and J6?

Scaphism seems poetically appropriate.

The second Trump administration has for me been the point where I no longer perceive Ben Garrison as a kooky goofball drawing quirky cartoons but as a genuinely evil and authoritarian individual with this being a good example:

Incredible they were double-tapping boats like this and they still left survivors.

"Part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine." Ah, yes, famously floaty cocaine.

Court martial time?

Fly these murderers to the Hague in that Qatari jet and leave the jet there.

This is murder.

“Logic”. Never has a word been used so incorrectly.

So freaking absurd. 😡

Corruption in every single part of our government.

And the media is missing the more relevant question (which they will never ask) - the double tap is a red herring - there is no legal justification for the *first* strike *even if* they are actually drug trafficking. There is no such right.

We keep evaluating the “double tap” under the rules of war, when it is murder, plain and simple. These guys might have been the scum of the earth and smuggling drugs, that does not make it legal to kill them.

But don’t lose sight of the big picture. No where under federal law is there capital punishment for drug trafficking. If these guys had been caught off the coast of Florida, they would have been arrested, charged and tried with due process, not summarily executed.

We tried, convicted and executed a U-Boat commander for essentially the same thing.

*blinks* There is no universe in which the above-described scenario isn't "foul murder." The correct response at that stage would be to send in a rescue, and if you think there is indeed cocaine in the wreckage, collect it as goddamn evidence.

"Free" is doing some extra work in the sentence for me.

Our tax dollars at work.

I think maybe the punishment should be a little harsher than that. This is ruthless, sociopathic murder.

Ok even if that bullshit logic is accepted, you still don’t get to murder people bc you suspect they are transporting narcotics. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

Sure, because there is a history of American war crimes being punished.

Or swimming.

EXACTLY 💯

This is a confession of a crime. Dude needs to go to Leavenworth or The Hague. And not just him.

Admiral Bradley goes down first, so everyone else in the military sees that there will be consequences for "following orders"...

Murderous FACIST Sociopaths leading America to War with Venezuela and the World! Putin just said he’s ready to Go to War with Europe

I no longer want justice. This list of offenses demands a more active and immediate response. I demand satisfaction.

At the very least you could have saved a $2 million missile and just gone to pick them and what you say were drugs up

They will escalate these murders with impunity.