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US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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I know we want to get really riled up and say that he's committed a war crime but presidents have been extra judicially killing drug dealers since Obama put them on the Disposition matrix (the "kill list").
Trump even goes out of his way to call them "narcoterrorists" because the way the law was written when the "war on terror" started (not that he pays that much attention to the law), anyone that has a mild supporting role in Al Qaeda and it's diaspora have open season on them without Congressional oversight in perpetuity.
I want people to understand that this is wrong but also every president has been doing this since 2010
Two things are different: Other presidents were smart enough not to publicly and personally associate themselves with something like this.
And more importantly, other presidents didn't rile the whole world up against them, but were mostly nice and forgiving, so other countries were more inclined to ignore these incidents.
"The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike,"
no they didn’t kill any drug smugglers, only terrorists…
Doesn't mean it's not a crime though