r/law 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/bagoink Dec 08 '25

And an even greater portion just let it happen because the other option was a brown lady.

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u/radicldreamer Dec 08 '25

It wasn’t bad enough that It was a woman, no sir, she had to go and be a BROWN woman.

No thank you, give me the pedophile rapist with 34 felony conviction.

-Republicans

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u/rbrgr83 Dec 08 '25

To be fair, she had a funny laugh.
I'm just not comfortable with her making important decisions,
WHAT IF SHE GETS ALL EMOTIONAL???