BREAKING NEWS — The Pentagon’s original justification for killing two shipwrecked survivors in a second U.S. strike has now completely disintegrated.
Here’s the distilled carnage:
Military officials first claimed the survivors were “radioing for backup.” Except — and this is where the floor drops out — Adm. Frank Bradley just told Congress the men didn’t even have a radio. Nothing. Not a weapon. Not comms gear. Not so much as a damn paddle.
They were unarmed, clinging to an overturned boat for 41 minutes, while U.S. commanders argued about whether rescuing them was too inconvenient.
Bradley still ordered a second strike, insisting the floating debris might contain cocaine and that the drowning survivors might somehow “resume trafficking” if saved.
Members of Congress who watched the video came away split in the most predictable way imaginable: Democrats called it horrifying. Republicans tied themselves in knots defending it.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s story keeps morphing, collapsing under its own contradictions. And legal experts are openly warning: killing shipwrecked survivors may qualify as a war crime.
Bottom line: The justification for that second strike is hanging by a thread, the facts are getting uglier by the hour, and the oversight hammer is coming.
