U.S. destroys Venezuelan vessels | Double Tap strike scrutiny

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Ramrouser said:
You don't think it's even plausible that foreign Cartel drug runners could be considered enemy combatants in light of their goal to flood the USA with illegal drugs which are killing hundreds of thousands of our youth?
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Your premise is flawed. Think about what you just wrote and get back to us.
 
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Boat Strike Video Shown to Lawmakers

Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four people.
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Boat strikes: A new detail about the survivors of a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean further complicates the military’s explanations for launching the follow-up attack that killed them. Multiple people who have seen video of the attacks say the survivors climbed on the overturned hull and waved to something overhead, a gesture interpreted as an attempt to surrender, beckoning rescue or trying to signal other alleged drug traffickers.
 
altmin said:
www.nytimes.com

Boat Strike Video Shown to Lawmakers

Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four people.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

Boat strikes: A new detail about the survivors of a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean further complicates the military’s explanations for launching the follow-up attack that killed them. Multiple people who have seen video of the attacks say the survivors climbed on the overturned hull and waved to something overhead, a gesture interpreted as an attempt to surrender, beckoning rescue or trying to signal other alleged drug traffickers.
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Anyone else starting to think the drone operators were trying to zoom in to get a better look and accidentally hit the second missile launch button? That would actually be a less disturbing explanation.
 
altmin said:
www.nytimes.com

Boat Strike Video Shown to Lawmakers

Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four people.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

Boat strikes: A new detail about the survivors of a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean further complicates the military’s explanations for launching the follow-up attack that killed them. Multiple people who have seen video of the attacks say the survivors climbed on the overturned hull and waved to something overhead, a gesture interpreted as an attempt to surrender, beckoning rescue or trying to signal other alleged drug traffickers.
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Does anyone know if this event happened before or after they actually did pick up the two survivors and repatriated them? I think that's an important data point here.
 
uncjhodges said:
before
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Makes, sense. Then the later it was an "Oops, was that bad???" moment. Picking up the other two is consciousness of guilt. I would also have questions about if at any point they started to use more lethal weaponry or larger initial salvos to avoid the survivor problem altogether.
 
Ramrouser said:
112,000 total. 2,300 youth.
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Cite and link your source. Youth is not children under 18. But I’ll take this as your admission that you were wrong and “hundreds of thousands of children” are not dying from drugs, such to justify extra-judicial murder of people in boats in the Caribbean.

You are a dishonest troll who gets their jollies being a dishonest troll. It’s a weird way to live.
 
We have a problem with guns being smuggled from the US to Mexico.

What if the Mexican government just started bombing trucks in the US suspected of gun smuggling?

And that would be far closer to meeting some definition of armed combatant.
 
Geisterfahrer said:
Cite and link your source. Youth is not children under 18. But I’ll take this as your admission that you were wrong and “hundreds of thousands of children” are not dying from drugs, such to justify extra-judicial murder of people in boats in the Caribbean.

You are a dishonest troll who gets their jollies being a dishonest troll. It’s a weird way to live.
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112k. I bet most were in their 20s. Technically adults but still youth in my book
 
80,000 in 2024 declining from a peak in 2022 of about 110,000.

There's about 180,000 alcohol related deaths. Up for bombing Bardstown, Kentucky and like? How about Coors Brewery? Btw, that rate is accelerating. Tobacco takes about 480,000 deaths. Should we carpet bomb the Tobacco Belt and spray the countryside with defoliants. Are you sure we're fighting the right drug war.? Those benefit from quality control, purity standards and the availability of treatment with little risk of social stigma or losing your job. I'll bet if we made drugs available, controlled purity, provided measured doses, encouraged real drug education and not just that "Just Say No" idiocy and provided help for those who develop addiction, we'd save lives, money and human potential. It would also undermine the profits of the drug cartels and hurt them worse than Hellfire missiles. Of course, it would hurt the private prison industry as well so 'pubs won't like that. Making money while hurting others is just so them.
 
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