In an absolutely bizarre and infuriating rant, far-left Democrat Seth Moulton (D-MA) went on the attack against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and declared that Secretary Hegseth has committed supposed war crimes that should be prosecuted and lead to his execution, as happened after the Second World War.
Such came in the wake of Secretary of War Hegseth’s testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, during which Moulton attacked Secretary Hegseth for his strikes on drug-running boats in the Caribbean, claiming that some such attacks are in violation of international law and are thus a “war crime” under the Geneva Convention.
Particularly, Rep. Moulton claimed that second strikes on some boats to destroy the survivors was a war crime. Pushing back on that during the hearings, Secretary Hegseth argued that America had clearly established “rules of engagement” that are in line with the convention and to which America stuck during the strikes.
Traditionally, in any case, the rules of war do not apply to non-uniformed combatants, such as cartels, guerrillas, and terror groups, as by remaining clothed as civilians they have posed as non-combatants to gain an edge on combatants. But Rep. Moulton did not seem to care about such details, and instead insisted that Hegseth was engaged in war crimes.
Such, in fact, is what he said when pressed on the matter by CNN’s Erin Burnett, on whose show he went after the hearing. In fact, Burnett pressed him on whether he really thinks Hegseth committed war crimes, and the congressman responded by insisting that Hegseth did and that Hegseth should be tried for it.
Beginning his response, Moutlon insisted, “Absolutely. I mean, he’s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it’s very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called ‘narco terrorists,’ a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the books.”
Continuing, the congressman absurdly claimed that it was fishermen who were racing around the Caribbean in speedboats and submarines, saying, “I mean, in fact, there’s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There’s been press reporting on some of these individuals who have been killed who are clearly not war criminals.”
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Then, commenting on one strike in which a partially destroyed boat was bombed again, he said, “And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again, a double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage.”
That is when the radical Democrat got to insisting that Hegseth could and should be executed for such incidents. Commenting on how Nazis were prosecuted after the war, Moulton insisted in what he framed as being a threat against Hegseth, after describing their conduct and trying to connect it to Hegseth’s, “And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed. Listen to that, Mr. Secretary.”
Watch him here:
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