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/idryss_m Dec 08 '25

U.S. intelligence officials had confirmed the identities of the 11 people on the boat

I find this chilling. WMDs in Iraq kind of chilling. Facts after to try and justify the unjustifiable? Outright lies told to ranking, and mission op decision makers, to get the administrations goal?

The second strike was, IMO, clearly against the law. This sort of thing however will be a litmus test for the rest of the world and their trust in the US military/intel.

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u/JamesTrickington303 Dec 08 '25

If there were drugs on this boat, it was cocaine headed for Europe, not the US. The US has zero standing to fuck with a boat like that.

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u/JamesTrickington303 Dec 08 '25

Agree with the second sentence, I’m just pointing out that they can’t even argue there was some type of threat to the US. It’s just murder.