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.Tom Cotton on the strikes against narcoterrorists: "It doesn't really matter what they were trying to do. What matters is they were not in a shipwrecked state... and therefore that boat is cargo and those drug traffickers remained valid targets."

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NBC News’ Kristen Welker: “Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t-shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): “Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo.” “For Admiral Bradley’s decision, it doesn’t really matter what they were doing. They were on the boat. That boat was a valid target. They were not in a state of distress.”

NBC News’ Kristen Welker: “Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t-shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): “Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo.” “For Admiral Bradley’s decision, it doesn’t really matter what they were doing. They were on the boat. That boat was a valid target. They were not in a state of distress.”

RedWave Press

200,640 views • 7 months ago

Himes: "As many times as Tom Cotton may say it doesn't matter what they were doing, it matters essentially what they were doing ... these guys were barely alive much less engaging in hostilities"

Himes: "As many times as Tom Cotton may say it doesn't matter what they were doing, it matters essentially what they were doing ... these guys were barely alive much less engaging in hostilities"

Aaron Rupar

64,239 views • 7 months ago

NBC News’ Kristen Welker: “Was Secretary Hegseth’s order to kiII everyone on the boat because they were on this target list?” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): “The order… is to destroy these drug boats which are running drugs into our country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers that are kiIIing hundreds of Arkansans every year.” “Before our military conducts such a strike, they have multiple sources of intelligence that give high confidence that everyone on that boat is a foreign drug trafficker.” “Not an innocent civilian... They’re all valid targets.”

NBC News’ Kristen Welker: “Was Secretary Hegseth’s order to kiII everyone on the boat because they were on this target list?” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): “The order… is to destroy these drug boats which are running drugs into our country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers that are kiIIing hundreds of Arkansans every year.” “Before our military conducts such a strike, they have multiple sources of intelligence that give high confidence that everyone on that boat is a foreign drug trafficker.” “Not an innocent civilian... They’re all valid targets.”

RedWave Press

29,504 views • 7 months ago

🚨 TOM COTTON JUST SAID WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS TOO SCARED TO SAY WELKER tried to play the sympathy card for narco-terrorists. COTTON shut it down instantly. “They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren’t floating helplessly. And it doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do.” Exactly. These aren’t innocent swimmers. These are the same people smuggling poison that kills Americans. And now the media wants us to worry about their safety? No. Enough of this insanity.

🚨 TOM COTTON JUST SAID WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS TOO SCARED TO SAY WELKER tried to play the sympathy card for narco-terrorists. COTTON shut it down instantly. “They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren’t floating helplessly. And it doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do.” Exactly. These aren’t innocent swimmers. These are the same people smuggling poison that kills Americans. And now the media wants us to worry about their safety? No. Enough of this insanity.

ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump 🇺🇸

21,769 views • 7 months ago

Hegseth: “I watched it live. Those 11 drug traffickers are no longer with us." 0 questions about how they know for sure the people in that boat they blew up were gang members/drug traffickers, or what legal authority they have to execute them even if they were.

Hegseth: “I watched it live. Those 11 drug traffickers are no longer with us." 0 questions about how they know for sure the people in that boat they blew up were gang members/drug traffickers, or what legal authority they have to execute them even if they were.

The Tennessee Holler

167,805 views • 10 months ago

Rep. Adam Smith on the double-tap strike: "There were two survivors on an overturned boat, and Senator Cotton's description of it is simply not accurate. When they were finally taken out, they weren't trying to flip the boat over. The boat was clearly incapacitated — a tiny portion of it remained capsized, the bow of the boat. They had no communications device, certainly they were unarmed. Any claim that the drugs somehow survived that attack is hard to really square with what we saw. So it was really disturbing. It did not appear that these two survivors were in any position to continue the fight."

Rep. Adam Smith on the double-tap strike: "There were two survivors on an overturned boat, and Senator Cotton's description of it is simply not accurate. When they were finally taken out, they weren't trying to flip the boat over. The boat was clearly incapacitated — a tiny portion of it remained capsized, the bow of the boat. They had no communications device, certainly they were unarmed. Any claim that the drugs somehow survived that attack is hard to really square with what we saw. So it was really disturbing. It did not appear that these two survivors were in any position to continue the fight."

The Bulwark

54,706 views • 7 months ago

Watters: It takes two strikes to knock the boat down… how is that a war crime? Jessica: If there are people who were shipwrecked, which is what these two survivors were— Watters: They are not survivors, they are terrorists… We're supposed to send a helicopter to rescue him? And then give him first-aid?

Watters: It takes two strikes to knock the boat down… how is that a war crime? Jessica: If there are people who were shipwrecked, which is what these two survivors were— Watters: They are not survivors, they are terrorists… We're supposed to send a helicopter to rescue him? And then give him first-aid?

Acyn

362,282 views • 7 months ago

WELKER: Lawmakers say the two men appeared to raise their arms potentially to signal a surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive? TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water. I don't think it matters all that much what they were trying to do.

WELKER: Lawmakers say the two men appeared to raise their arms potentially to signal a surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive? TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water. I don't think it matters all that much what they were trying to do.

Aaron Rupar

62,798 views • 7 months ago

There were 4 idiots out there that day. This is why who we let into our country matters. What ideologies they believe in matters. Acting like that doesn't matter and just trying to look virtuous is idiotic and dangerous.

There were 4 idiots out there that day. This is why who we let into our country matters. What ideologies they believe in matters. Acting like that doesn't matter and just trying to look virtuous is idiotic and dangerous.

Jeffery Mead

39,105 views • 4 months ago

SECRETARY RUBIO: "I'm not going to comment on their internal structures and whether they're unified or not unified because it doesn't matter. What matters is what they do or they don't do."

SECRETARY RUBIO: "I'm not going to comment on their internal structures and whether they're unified or not unified because it doesn't matter. What matters is what they do or they don't do."

Department of State

74,622 views • 21 days ago

Q: "The Pentagon's Law of War manual…says 'Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.' Given that, how was that follow up strike on the two survivors legal?" Tom Cotton: "They were not incapacitated… They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat."

Q: "The Pentagon's Law of War manual…says 'Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.' Given that, how was that follow up strike on the two survivors legal?" Tom Cotton: "They were not incapacitated… They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat."

The Bulwark

252,852 views • 7 months ago

"The order, like the entire operation, is to destroy these drug boats — which are running drugs into our country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers," says Tom Cotton. "It was entirely appropriate to strike the boat again to make sure that its cargo was destroyed."

"The order, like the entire operation, is to destroy these drug boats — which are running drugs into our country from foreign drug cartels and traffickers," says Tom Cotton. "It was entirely appropriate to strike the boat again to make sure that its cargo was destroyed."

Rapid Response 47

111,321 views • 7 months ago

"They put themselves here for what? Because it was the right thing to do... they were not gaining territory, they were not here for riches, they were not here to conquer anything. They were really here in order to mend the future." Tom Hanks reflects on the heroes of D Day

"They put themselves here for what? Because it was the right thing to do... they were not gaining territory, they were not here for riches, they were not here to conquer anything. They were really here in order to mend the future." Tom Hanks reflects on the heroes of D Day

Christiane Amanpour

2,046,890 views • 2 years ago

“What the Iranians were trying to do, and what really worries the Israelis, is that they were trying to extend their deterrence,” says Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute, responding to Iran's strikes on Israel in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations in Lebanon. This “would be the first time in a very long time that a major power would put real hard power behind a warning or a deterrent against an attack by Israel on a third country.”

“What the Iranians were trying to do, and what really worries the Israelis, is that they were trying to extend their deterrence,” says Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute, responding to Iran's strikes on Israel in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations in Lebanon. This “would be the first time in a very long time that a major power would put real hard power behind a warning or a deterrent against an attack by Israel on a third country.”

Democracy Now!

22,306 views • 1 month ago

Rep. Crawford defends Hegseth's second strike on a demolished boat: "They were trying to right that ship. It was still laden with cargo. They were potentially signaling other vessels in the region."

Rep. Crawford defends Hegseth's second strike on a demolished boat: "They were trying to right that ship. It was still laden with cargo. They were potentially signaling other vessels in the region."

Aaron Rupar

79,370 views • 7 months ago

Phillip: Should Republicans stop? Moynihan: They actually did. In Indiana, they tried to do just that. Phillip: That is not what happened. They voted against it and they were targeted by the president. And while that was happening down in Florida, Ron DeSantis, said that he was going to redistrict his state Moynihan: That was a ceasefire.

Phillip: Should Republicans stop? Moynihan: They actually did. In Indiana, they tried to do just that. Phillip: That is not what happened. They voted against it and they were targeted by the president. And while that was happening down in Florida, Ron DeSantis, said that he was going to redistrict his state Moynihan: That was a ceasefire.

Acyn

85,777 views • 2 months ago

Responding to Sen. Tom Cotton saying the alleged drug boat survivors were trying to flip it over and stay in the fight, Rep. Adam Smith calls that "patently ridiculous." "Adm. Bradley didn't even pretend that was the case."

Responding to Sen. Tom Cotton saying the alleged drug boat survivors were trying to flip it over and stay in the fight, Rep. Adam Smith calls that "patently ridiculous." "Adm. Bradley didn't even pretend that was the case."

Kaitlan Collins

315,420 views • 7 months ago

This is something I have said multiple times here. Don't listen to what they say, look a what they are doing. They'll tell you that it doesn't matter, but the investment put in hiding that fact does not align with those words. If it doesn't matter, why do all that to hide it?🤔

This is something I have said multiple times here. Don't listen to what they say, look a what they are doing. They'll tell you that it doesn't matter, but the investment put in hiding that fact does not align with those words. If it doesn't matter, why do all that to hide it?🤔

Mr. Imhotep

17,509 views • 2 years ago

Any boat filled with drugs and operated by foreign drug traffickers trying to kill American kids is a valid military target. We should continue these lawful, needful strikes to protect our children.

Any boat filled with drugs and operated by foreign drug traffickers trying to kill American kids is a valid military target. We should continue these lawful, needful strikes to protect our children.

Tom Cotton

225,794 views • 7 months ago

#DemsUnited #DV1 Did it ever occur to Tom Cotton that the survivors might’ve been flipping the boat over so they could survive? They were incapacitated and unarmed. There are “shipwreck laws” in the DoD manual that Cotton has apparently never read.

#DemsUnited #DV1 Did it ever occur to Tom Cotton that the survivors might’ve been flipping the boat over so they could survive? They were incapacitated and unarmed. There are “shipwreck laws” in the DoD manual that Cotton has apparently never read.

Lisa Ericsson Murphy 🌊🌊Release Them, Pam. 🇺🇦

48,009 views • 7 months ago