Pete Hegseth, the drunkard US Secretary of Hore, is now throwing the US military commander of the strike on the fishermen's boat, Navy Admiral Frank 'Mitch' Bradley, under the bus by saying that it was Bradley who ordered, not him, the second strike on wounded fishermen who survived the first strike.
There is absolutely no evidence that the boats off the coast of Venezuela carried drugs or drug smugglers. Even if some boats do carry drugs, they are so far away from the US mainland that they do not pose any threat to the US. There are better targets that the US could be aiming for.
But we all know by now that Donald Dumb and his clown Secretary of Hore Pete Hegseth are not after drugs and drug traffickers, for if they were, Donald Dumb would not have pardoned the former Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted for a major cocaine smuggling enterprise to the US (and bragging about having all the gringos powder their nose with it) and sentenced by a US court to 45 years in prison. Donald Dumb is literally setting free convicted criminal drug kingpins back in the streets, free to resume their drug smuggling operations again to the US.
The reason for this contradiction is that Trump believes in a two-class social structure based on money and power. A drug smuggler form the lower classes is filthy and disposable and can be labeled a narco-terrorist and a criminal. But an "upper-class" wealthy criminal - like Trump himself - does not deserve to be in prison because of his wealth and social standing. That is why he moved Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex pedophile criminal, to a fancy prison where she takes art, meditation and yoga classes at substantial cost to the American taxpayer. It's really as simple as that. Trump really thinks he is an aristocrat - what with the golden toilets and extravagant ballrooms - who stands above the maddening fray of the ordinary masses. He feels the pain of his fellow wealthy criminals and lowlifes who ended up in jail for their crimes while he came out scot-free for his crimes and escaped such a sinister fate. So he has embarked on pardoning and releasing all his fellow wealthy criminals.
The version of events regarding the second strike has evolved over the past two days when Pete Hegseth was accused of War Crimes for ordering the second strike on the fishermen's boat. First, he denied. Then he admitted via the White House spokesperson. But now he is saying he did not order the second strike and was not in the operations room (in Fort Bragg, NC) when Bradley gave the order for the second strike.
As is typical of dictatorships, the truth is irrelevant. The dictators commit the crime (like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his chopping off of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's body in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul), but then when caught, they dump the responsibility on inferior-rank subordinates, usually from the police and armed forces. That is exactly what the Laurel and Hardy duo have cooked up last night, and are now blaming Bradley for the second strike.
Here is former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall's opinion on the issue. He refutes Bradley’s contorted reasoning (as dictated to him by Trump and Hegseth) for launching a second strike on a vessel in the Caribbean as two wounded survivors clung on to the boat.
“Under normal circumstances, it’d be court-martialed. He’d be relieved of his duties, and he’d be court-martialed ... The administration makes up logic and rationale for the things it’s doing that defy all legal history and all precedent, and that’s basically what we’re seeing here.”
And Kendall is not alone: Several other former government and military leaders have also qualified the “double tap” attack a violation of the country’s law of war manual.
“Adm. Bradley was reported to have given an excuse, if you will, for the second engagement. That doesn’t hold water. These people were wounded. They were in the water. They were not a threat to anybody. Again, that’s a textbook example of a war crime,” Kendall said Monday.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to The Washington Post, gave orders to “kill everybody” onboard the ship as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on the alleged sale and transport of narcotics in the Latin American region. However, Hegseth says he did not order a second strike.
“You can‘t kill survivors who can no longer fight,” John Yoo, who served as an adviser in former President George W. Bush’s administration, said during a Monday appearance on CNN. “So, the admiral should not have obeyed the order that Secretary Hegseth gave. And even the soldiers who carried out the admiral‘s orders should not have obeyed.”
White House press secretary, "Hot-Lips" know-it-all liar Karoline Leavitt said Monday that Bradley acted “within his authority and the law.” She justified the strikes as targeting narcotrafficking groups recently named as "foreign" terrorist organizations. Trump deals harshly with "foreign" terrorists but is much more lenient with "domestic" terrorists like his mob of criminals who attacked the US Congress in January 2021 and whom he has pardoned, all 1,500 of them.
Leavitt's comments contradict the U.S.’s war manual, which states “orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.” Legal experts also confirm that the fatal attack violates peacetime laws as well as those governing armed conflict.
Hegseth (and Bradley too) currently benefits from immunity, but may be sued for war crimes as soon as he is out of office. In this, he follows the example of the other war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu who extended his genocide in Gazaas long as he could in order to escape justice for several fraud and corruption charges leveled against him. Now that he will soon be out of office, he is begging the Israeli President to pardon him.
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