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I argue that the Navy knew who they were killing when they blew the boat out of the water. As of yet, YOU only know what you know because the intelligence organizations are not obligated to disclose anything to you. I trust the Navy and the intelligence sources KNEW more than you, that these were confirmed drug traffickers.
Where have I said otherwise? I'm not the one making assertions about who or what was on that boat.
Or maybe they were a bunch of kids on a school trip. The point is that none of us knows who or what was on the boat because the government has done nothing other than assert - without providing any evidence - that they were all drug traffickers. And, because they're all dead and the boat is destroyed, we have no way to verify that.
As I said early in the thread, it's entirely possible that specific boat had been seen before in US waters operating in ways known to be common to drug traffickers. There are plenty of vessels in the littoral waters of Venezuela and other nations that would be targets if the Navy were acting completely indiscriminately...they would be sinking a boat every two or three days, if they were operating indiscriminately. There's no indication that's what they're doing, and I'm not very worried about the identity of this particular vessel.
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Just the United States government who has an army of intelligence analysts and billions of dollars worth of survalence assets and no need or desire to share anything with you. My point is that just because you demand evidence or proof, they are not required, nor are you entitled to receive such evidence.
I remember the Obama administration sending a bunch of guns to the cartels. I believe it was called "Operation Fast and Furious." Or did that get thrown down the memory hole too.
God forbid you ever have a child who becomes a drug addict and dies from an overdose of the poisons these cartels are pumping into this country. Otherwise, you would have a completely different tone.
Generally speaking, someone (outside of members of the Executive branch) is entitled to receive that evidence. At minimum, the members of the Intelligence Committees for accountability purposes. And, I'd argue that the government publicizing the action does entitle the public to know who we just executed. Generally speaking, when the government announces that it has hit some high-ranking terrorist with a drone strike, it also tells the public who it was and specific things that person had done that might justify the strike. I don't see this as significantly different.
Yeah and then where would our space program be?
While my kids don't, For almost a decade I worked with EXACTLY those kids.
Poor poor drug dealers. Their only fault was providing the poisons to those troubled teens because they had horrible parents.
I would like to think that they did but there are no reports of this, as of yet
I didn't say that they did but reports are coming out of Venezuela, so we would have known about it.
I don't trust anyone in this administration. But the videos that have been released show no attempt to follow rules of engagement. Hopefully, the Navy will release something to show they acted properly.
Seems that the DNC have specialized it taking the "no-win" situations as if they are actively trying to martyr their party for their cause. Which, in this case, is defending narco-terrorists. Note, I am speaking of the party, not the individuals who elect them.
So based on your post, God forbid you have a child that is killed from a drug overdose, we will all just blame your poor parenting for their death? God forbid we actually hold the people accountable for providing said poisons to your child? That is the hill you want to do on? This is why the DNC is dying.
Why do you think congress isn't doing anything? Probably because they have seen the evidence and cannot argue against it. Sure, you will find activist TDS stragglers making publicity stunts. But none of them will show any evidence that the strick was illegitimate or illegal. Just heart-string pulling.
