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NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker

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Pentagon admits it doesn't 'positively ID' people before boat strikes kill them: lawmaker

www.rawstory.com

NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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Officials from the Pentagon reportedly admitted that they were unable to verify who was on alleged drug boats before launching strikes killing everyone aboard the vessels. After carrying out strikes on more than a dozen boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, the Pentagon gave lawmakers from both partie...
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    Yeah. That’s just called “murder”, then.

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      Terrorism.

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      It’s murder either way. Even if they were drug smugglers, that is not something worth killing.

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        Even if they were worth killing it’d still be murder

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          Yes, what I meant is more that in case of an imminent terrorist attack, I would deem it okay to kill somebody if it saves the life’s of other people and no other less lethal method was sure to stop the attack.

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