Are you the type of person who would execute wounded survivors of a missile strike?

[Jake Starkey]

I can see reasons that would stand up in a court of law, yes.

Are you the type of person who would execute wounded survivors of a missile strike?

This situation? I would need more information.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Trump said he didn’t know about the strike while Hegseth insisted he left before the second one on September 2.​

Trump said he didn’t know about the strike while Hegseth insisted he left before the second one on September 2.

President Donald Trump quickly distanced himself from a deadly U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat amid growing scrutiny over whether the attack was legal. The Washington Post reported that two people survived the first blast and were clinging to the side of the burning vessel on September 2...

news.yahoo.com

 

[Nordberg]

Trump said he didn’t know about the strike while Hegseth insisted he left before the second one on September 2.​

Trump said he didn’t know about the strike while Hegseth insisted he left before the second one on September 2.

President Donald Trump quickly distanced himself from a deadly U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat amid growing scrutiny over whether the attack was legal. The Washington Post reported that two people survived the first blast and were clinging to the side of the burning vessel on September 2...

news.yahoo.com

Now he was there. Hegseth is a Trumpy, meaning he has no trouble lying like a MFer.

 

[Cypress]

Even if it's smoky and you can't see if there are any survivors

They could see the aftermath of the strike, and the mission had been accomplished by destroying the boat.

We're also not at war with Venezuela the way we were in a state of war with Al Qaeda.

 

[FastLane]

The WaPo has one anonymous source that said it happened the NYT has 5 sources on the record that say it never happened.

 

[christiefan915]

Trump said he didn’t know about the strike while Hegseth insisted he left before the second one on September 2.​

Trump said he didn’t know about the strike while Hegseth insisted he left before the second one on September 2.

President Donald Trump quickly distanced himself from a deadly U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat amid growing scrutiny over whether the attack was legal. The Washington Post reported that two people survived the first blast and were clinging to the side of the burning vessel on September 2...

news.yahoo.com

Now the excuses start.

 

[ZenMode]

From the Geneva Convention:

Article 3​

In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

Maybe it's just me, but dropping another bomb, to finish them off, doesn't seem to fit within those parameters.

 

[AProudLefty]

The WaPo has one anonymous source that said it happened the NYT has 5 sources on the record that say it never happened.

Link.

 

[AProudLefty]

From the Geneva Convention:

Article 3​

In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

Maybe it's just me, but dropping another bomb, to finish them off, doesn't seem to fit within those parameters.

The convention explicitly prohibits ordering that there shall be no survivors.

 

[christiefan915]

From the Geneva Convention:

Article 3​

In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

Maybe it's just me, but dropping another bomb, to finish them off, doesn't seem to fit within those parameters.

It's not just you.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

My theory is TrumpCo. doesn't want any survivors who might testify it was a pleasure craft, not a drug boat.

Excellent point.

 

[FastLane]

Link.

Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say

 

[Dutch Uncle]

This isn't psychopathic at all...

https://bsky.app/profile/accountablegop.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3m6xsrhom7w2w

View: https://bsky.app/profile/accountablegop.bsky.social/post/3m6xsrhom7w2w

She also defended Trump from being a pedophile with semantics.

 

[AProudLefty]

Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say

Paywall.

White House confirmed second strike.

Redirect Notice

 

[Into the Night]

“I can’t imagine anyone, no matter what the circumstance, believing it is appropriate to kill people who are clinging to a boat in the water,” said Michael Schmitt, a former Air Force lawyer and professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. “That is clearly unlawful.”

It doesn’t matter whether the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels as the Trump administration asserts. Such a fatal attack would have violated peacetime laws and those governing armed conflict, the experts say.

What the law says about killing survivors of a boat strike, according to experts

Leveling a second strike on the survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat would have been a crime, legal experts say.

www.pbs.org

Is legal and legitimate for any nation to destroy ships used in piracy or smuggling.

 

[Into the Night]

I think the White House has admitted there was a second strike on the survivors, but they're trying to shift the blame from Hegswith to a fall guy who is some admiral.

No, Cyborg. The survivors were picked up and sent back to their home country.

 

[Tobytone]

“I can’t imagine anyone, no matter what the circumstance, believing it is appropriate to kill people who are clinging to a boat in the water,” said Michael Schmitt, a former Air Force lawyer and professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. “That is clearly unlawful.”

It doesn’t matter whether the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels as the Trump administration asserts. Such a fatal attack would have violated peacetime laws and those governing armed conflict, the experts say.

What the law says about killing survivors of a boat strike, according to experts

Leveling a second strike on the survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat would have been a crime, legal experts say.

www.pbs.org

Change the word from 'survivors' to terrorist and take a poll. How about ask if people are cool with using a drone to target and kill American citizens? Or are you ok with hundreds of innocent people dying from US drone strikes in several countries that we were not at war with? I'm thinking you get the overwhelming majority answering YES to number one and NO to the other two. Hmmmm?

Could this be the new hoax to get off the Epstein thing or the massive fraud thing? Something they've been sitting on since Sept 2nd. Any chance this is why the scumbags made the illegal video? Just asking questions.

I love it when you all work on your insult game (somehow all of you are still at the 2nd grade level so improvement is welcomed), but maybe for once you could actually address the questions.

 

[Into the Night]

That really depends on the specific circumstances of the specific event. Life evolves in a perpetual balancing outcome scenario those living are physically existing as eternally separated by mutual hearts beating at the same time their individual brain is navigating space where they are located now in this atmosphere.

YARP

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Exactly. The timeline is important. The double-tap strike occurred in early September. An attack on a submersible in October(?) left two survivors who were repatriated to their home countries. This is odd, but may have been the result of realizing Trump, Whiskey Pete and/or ADM Bradley had committed a war crime the previous month.

What's odd is that a submersible is clearly a threat. A surface craft may not be. Trump repatriates survivors from a submersible, a common drug boat, yet murdered two survivors from a surface craft. This odd behavior can be explained if he realized that the September strike was a war crime and was trying to cover his ass.

October 18, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5579045/drug-vessel-survivors-trump-ecuador-colombia

2 survivors of suspected drug vessel will be sent to home countries, Trump says​

The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, President Donald Trump said Saturday.

The military rescued the pair after striking a submersible vessel Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such attack since early September.

We get a lot of refugees/immigrants from that country. How many of these boats might be mules carrying innocents and nothing to do with drugs? We have yet to see a shred of evidence from Trump that they have dope aboard.

 

[Into the Night]

You finish Hitler off if he only takes a bullet to the leg.

Last week, the boat and the cocaine were sunk (assuming it was a drug boat) and you had a few wounded survivors clinging to flotsam who were most likely either going to drown or bleed out.

YARP