Sen. Mark Kelly: ‘No’ I wouldn’t have followed the order to carry out second strike on suspected drug vessel.

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1. OH this should get TACO wound up.

2. Orders shouldn’t have been followed for the first strike either.

3. Anyone in a position to issue orders to subordinates knows that it is illegal to kill unarmed men.

4. Military 101. Basic knowledge everyone learns in their first year, reiterated during pre-deployment training.

5. Imagine this being a controversial statement.

6. 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.

7. Follow-up: “Would you have followed an order to hit it the first time?”

8. It’s like Mark Kelly has actual military experience.

9. Bro, even the first strike was illegal. It’s just straight up murder

10. 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.

11. 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?

12. The military leadership going along with these executions are equally as guilty as Hegseth.

13. Because it is illegal…yea

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Because it’s illegal and Mark Kelly is a man of integrity and intelligence.

18. Clearing out the JAG corps was a preamble to willy nilly war criming

19. 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.

20. I mean…they shouldn’t have followed the first order, either

21. I’m glad people like Mark Kelly are out there challenging Trump. It helps. Every bit helps.

22. They can spin politics with the first strike.

    If true, the follow-up strike, on non-combatants is a war crime or murder.

    This is indefensible and every person in that chain of command should be investigated to be charged with murder.

    The US must uphold the rules of war or you lose all credibility internationally and expose all our allied armed forces to the same fate.

23. The soldiers who did this will be tapped to lead the first strikes against american cities. 

24. AM radio talked about how he and the others didn’t give an example of what would count as an “illegal order”. Guess they have one now.

25. People don’t understand.

    Not only is this murder, but it is just dumb when it comes to tracking down drugs.

    Imagine being able to capture drug traffickers alive and interrogate them about their drug lanes…

    There are very literally reasons NOT to kill them, if they are actual drug traffickers.

    You want to know something though?

    I think they are blowing up random boats. I genuinely think they are blowing up any suspicious looking boats that may have PEOPLE on them, not drugs, but immigrants.

    When we find out, they will try to say those immigrant families were trafficking drugs… But I’m telling you this is 100% them covering their asses for blowing up boats taking immigrants to places.

26. This is no different then setting up a machine gun at the border of Mexico and killing every person who might be bringing drugs across.

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