Republikaner im Repräsentantenhaus: Zweiter US-Angriff auf mutmaßliches Drogenboot in der Karibik „wäre eine illegale Tat“

They never care about legality until it’s time to score points on cable news

Trump will pardon everyone involved

Imagine believing for a nanosecond that they would hold one of their own accountable for their actions 

US Senators who confirmed these fools should be ashamed of themselves. The “Chamber of sober thought” allowed a lush to drive America’s trillion dollar kaboom bus.

So then it didn’t happen. That’s what they are going to say next. 

There is zero defence for drone striking these boats. Zero.

It’s murder, every single one of these strikes.

This is a police issue full stop. The correct and traditional method is to stop and board these boats. The PROBLEM was that it was hard to find them. Now that they have a massive navel presence in the area, it’s easy, or should be to identify them. 

Regardless, Venezuela is NOT a major source of drugs into the US. It’s not along traditional smuggling routes. This is a manufactured crises.

What a black eye for America. Entirely self inflicted.

Won’t they get around this by claming „The Supreme Courts says any official act as president is legal, therefore any official act by one of his hired proxes is also protected under the same princicple.“

The second strike was illegal. The first strike was illegal, too. A third one would also be. This isn’t difficult. You don’t use the military to execute civilians without a trial.

Trump will just pardon him. Then pardon himself.

It almost definitely was but only the most egregious violations of Geneva against the weakest countries seem to be prosecuted anyway so it largely seems irrelevant. I remember controversy over the Obama administration’s use of double-tap drone-strikes which were pretty well documented in Pakistan. A few which actually led to deaths of first responders. Russia, Israel, Ukraine (though always against military forces that could potentially still pose threats), Saudi etc. have all been documented (sometimes by themselves in propaganda they release of drone footage).

The failure of the law (IMO) isn’t necessarily just the failure to give quarter (which is still despicable), but the broad-stroke ability to categorize almost anyone/any group as a terrorist, thus allowing such action.

First strike was too.

First strike is illegal too

The first strike was illegal too. This is some dumbfuck bullshit.

Will the Rapepublican party sell out again?

It isn’t that the second strike was what made the action bad. Yes, that was despicable, but the initial strike was already extrajudicial, and most likely illegal. The second strike to target people was/is the action of a small man.

Actually so was the first.

And the firat one ?

The absolute hypocrisy of trump pardoning drug kingpins and ordering the military to attack Venezuelan boats alleging drug trafficking and killing those on board . It is apparent that trump as no problem with wealthy drug dealers makes is curious as to his reason for targeting others. It is not the drugs .

But… not the 1st strike? I’m confused. They still presented ZERO evidence these folks were up to drug smuggling other than „trust us we know“