Sen. Mark Kelly: ‘No’ I wouldn’t have followed the order to carry out second strike on suspected drug vessel.
Source: Afrin_Drip
Sen. Mark Kelly: ‘No’ I wouldn’t have followed the order to carry out second strike on suspected drug vessel.
Source: Afrin_Drip
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OH this should get TACO wound up.
Orders shouldn’t have been followed for the first strike either.
Anyone in a position to issue orders to subordinates knows that it is illegal to kill unarmed men.
Military 101. Basic knowledge everyone learns in their first year, reiterated during pre-deployment training.
Legit question is there international law about not killing survivors of a military target/vehicle, if this was a legit declared war?
Imagine this being a controversial statement.
There are stories of the ACTUAL nazis having more respect for POW’s and the laws of war than this administration does. If more people were capable of thinking critically, it would really make you think.
Follow-up: “Would you have followed an order to hit it the first time?”
It’s like Mark Kelly has actual military experience.
Bro, even the first strike was illegal. It’s just straight up murder
Well I suppose I appreciate republicans handling us an obvious out from their nonsensical traitor claims. Not even magats can deny that perhaps Democrats had a point with Hennessybreath issuing wildly illegal orders to murder helpless noncombatants.
What the fuck am I saying? Of course they’ll deny it. Reality is whatever trump says it is to <40% of the county.
Incoming recall and court martial for failure to obey hypothetical illegal orders.
Ok but why are all these stories making it seem like the first order was legal??!!!! What’s this emphasis on the second one, which was heinous, as if the first one was lawful?
The military leadership going along with these executions are equally as guilty as Hegseth.
Because it is illegal…yea
The second order was unconstitutional and clearly so. It was pure murder. The soldiers who did it may have some plausible deniability depending on what they knew and how they were given, but very likely they are on the hook for murder here in a legal sense. And much less likely to be remembered in Trump’s pardons. They can’t pay his bribes, and he just doesn’t care about them.
Everyone in that chain of command who did carry out the order needs to be charged and held to account.
America really needs to start rooting out the cancer that is MAGA or it is going to destroy the nation.
Not that it would happen, but in the slim hypothetical that Capt Kelly is impacted by recalling him to the military and Court Martialing him, for me would be the absolute last straw in a bed of last straws.
Because it’s illegal and Mark Kelly is a man of integrity and intelligence.
Killing survivors has always been our military’s credo. Wait. Stop. Reverse that. Thanks Willy.
Clearing out the JAG corps was a preamble to willy nilly war criming
I won’t even lie on powerpoints when my bosses ask me to, I sure as hell ain’t war criming anyone
What about the first order?
When you execute of an enemy combatant who is ‘hors de combat,’ or taken out of the fight due to injury or surrender, you break the Law of Armed Confict. No matter how you cut it, thats illegal.
It’s so refreshing to see someone as decorated as Senator Kelly speak up and say simple truths. I loved the interview after suffering through Noem’s
He’s a real one
He wouldn’t have followed order to execute the first strike even. He knows these people have zero due process to protect themselves. They might not be our citizens, but they are of another nation and we respect our laws and other nation’s laws too.
The latest South Park does Hegseth to a T.
I mean…they shouldn’t have followed the first order, either
Whatever threat those people posed was neutralized with the destruction of their boat. Attacking them in the first place was already arguably an illegal act, shooting them like fish in a barrel afterwards absolutely was.