Navy Admiral Tells Congress There was No ‘Kill Them All’ Order in Boat Strike
And we wonder why the Pentagon has placed restrictions on the media.
Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley told lawmakers today that there was no “kill them all” order on an alleged drug boat in September.
According to the Associated Press, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Bradley “was very clear that he was given no such order, to give no quarter or to kill them all.”
Cotton also said the video of the strike showed the two survivors “trying to flip their boat back over and continue their mission.”
The Democrats, on the other hand, tried to portray the alleged drug runners as “shipwrecked sailors.”
Still, [Rep. Jim] Himes said the full video footage of the Sept. 2 strikes showed that the two survivors were “shipwrecked sailors.”
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service. You have two individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel, who were killed by the United States,” Himes went on. “Now there’s a whole set of contextual items that the admiral explained. Yes, they were carrying drugs. They were not in the position to continue their mission in any way.”
Himes made some outlandish statements yesterday as Elizabeth wrote this morning.
This all stems from a Washington Post article that claimed sources said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to “kill them all.”
Even The New York Times called out WaPo, pointing out that the article “did not provide context on when Mr. Hegseth gave what its sources described as a spoken order to kill everyone.”
Gee, and the media wonders why the Pentagon has placed restrictions on the media!
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Himes is a contemptible idiot as is anyone who voted for him. No context required.
I’m disappointed you didn’t say “worm” after ‘contemptible’.
Worms are useful. They enhance soil and are good fishing bait. Himes, however…
I’ll do better.
Lets not hear statements about the video. Lets see the actual video.
I was quite sure that when Admiral Bradley testified this whole thing would blow up in Dems and the media’s faces and it has. Bradley is the real deal twice over and extremely smart as in a Master in Physics and a patent related to it.
Won’t stop the media continuing to lie about it. This is the same media that has yet to admit they got anything wrong about the Wuflu, the Russia hoax, the J6 “insurrection” hoax, the “Very fine people” lie, etc.
The fact the boat was still floating was enough to order a second strike. Period. And totally within the laws of war.
The evidence beyond that was overkill, but pointed out just HOW wrong the presstitutes were with their lies.
They tried to turn Hegseth into the guy ordering the massacre at the beginning of Running Man (original). It didn’t work – and at least partly because they cut off access to the working spaces of the Pentagon.
Indeed. The allegation was that the second strike’s purpose was to kill the survivors, not to sink the boat. Had the allegation been true, that would have been a crime. But there was never any reason to suppose it was true.
A famous submarine captain in WWII intentionally killed surviving Japanese sailors. No blowback. X has a video of then Senator Biden demanding Bush create a strike force to defeat cartels outside US.. Explain how non-uniformed smugglers of deadly cargo are afforded the right of survival. Try smuggling this in Singapore.
Not to mention the battle of the Bismark Sea where it happened at scale.
Notice how this “incident” aligns with the “illegal orders” video. It almost seems planned (sarc)
The contemptible press has no business stepping foot in the Pentagon. Enemies of the people. First Amendment be damned.
The First Amendment needs to be treated similar to how the left treats the Second Amendment.
The press needs to be licensed, they must compete a form every time they put out an article. They must be limited to one magazine……. article every three months.
There must be a three day waiting period between creating an article and publishing it.
Also any verbal assaults by the press are banned.
And I’ve certainly heard often enough that “words are [can be] violence!” Sort of like gun violence if you think about it. Common sense restrictions are clearly needed! Who could possibly need fully automatic instruments of violence such as high performance assault word processors with AI agents attached?
They should have to show ID and get BG check every time they buy pens or pencils.
No high capacity printing presses and limits on ink and paper. Only Ben Franklin single paper presses are covered. Freedom of the press is al about the mechanical printing press and not reporters. They tried registering printing presses in early 1800s.
The First Amendment is irrelevant here. The government has the right to admit into its buildings whom it wants. If it doesn’t want to admit certain media into the Pentagon, the media have no basis to complain.
Exactly.
I am so glad you picked up on my snark.
Sailors in Distress? Bruh, no. That’s not applicable to narcoterrorist, Pirates, unlawful combatants. These guys weren’t in a disabled vessel from storm damage. Trying to.stretch the term to accommodate the ‘narrative’ is flipping stupidly obvious and will ultimately undermine credibility. Like folks trying to conflate some jerk trying to ‘cop a feel’ as SA = rape. It cheapens the terms and harms real victims whose claims will be viewed more skeptically b/c of all the ‘boy who cried wolf’ effect in pursuit of the ‘narrative’.
I think we need to learn a lot more about the WPs anonymous source.
Trump should issue a preemptive pardon for the Admiral because the Dems will go after him the minute they get back in power. Trump should just say so and explain the reason why it’s necessary.
Look at this in the context of American deaths. I have 2 dead young men who had children in related to extended family on my ex wife’s side. They were not raised well, but Fentanyl should not be available. I don’t care how high cartel mortality becomes.
Why is the Admiral missing a stripe in the photo above? He is a full admiral, but the uniform in the picture is that of a vice admiral.
Friends of mine who were in JSOC tell me that he used to bring physics, math, engineering, and economic text books into the operations center to pass the time on watch.
Must be old photo from prior testimony. He testified in a closed door session so I don’t think there would have been a recent photo.
Calling these narco-terrorists “Ship wrecked sailors” is like calling a drug dealer a “Pharmaceutical supplier”! Do these morons ever stop to hear what they are saying?
Three facts:
1. It was not a shipwreck
2. They were not sailors
3. Rep. Jim Himes is a Never Trumper POS
Today’s Democrat party, on the wrong side of almost everything that is moral, just and legal.