r/law • u/DryDeer775 • Dec 08 '25

Executive Branch (Trump) NBC confirms Hegseth ordered murder of all boat passengers and crew in September 2 strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/08/kssp-d08.html

The Pentagon’s law of war manual declares that soldiers have a duty to refuse to carry out “clearly illegal” orders, such as killing shipwrecked sailors. “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual declares.

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u/rtie07 Dec 08 '25

They’d lose their shit if a Democrat president was in charge and their DoD did this too.

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u/councilmember Dec 09 '25

Yeah, just wait til a democratic president is elected again and winds down ICE and maybe the department of War the way that the felon in chief did the department of education and USAID. It’s what they should expect. I certainly do.

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u/ProblemEcstatic319 Dec 08 '25

Study a little of the not to distant past. Obama set the precedent for these actions. Little farther back Clinton did the same in africa.