John, you can do so much better than to reiterate the sloppy points made by the Democratic Party of Destruction. It was NOT a fishing boat. It was a cartel drug trafficking vessel, identified as such by methods you are not entitled to know (nor am I). The second strike was done because the two men were not poor survivors clinging to the wreckage; they were cartel members seen trying to salvage the drug cargo and contact other compatriots in the area. Stop being a whining podium for broadcasting sops that favor the most evil, vicious and destructive men on this planet, drug smugglers and cartel members. This is not an argument worthy of you.
John, I usually like your articles -but not this one. And, Mical made a legit point. You waving your hand and disregarding it by saying "silly" is like what the brainwashed liberals do. Don't act like them. Do you think you can just claim authority and disrespect any facts presented now??? You might as well go all the way and claim superior intelligence to go with that bullshit...
The boat was clearly NOT a fishing boat.
In fact, it clearly WAS a smugglers boat.
Do you want try to dispute that?
I didn't know that story about the opium wars, so that part was interesting... But I don't hate the Chinese for how they handled the situation because it was they who were being attacked in the first place. Kinda like what's going on now with Venezuela, so it was a very good comparison imo.
Also, what would happen if they rescued those two smugglers and brought them to court? It should be obvious that some liberal judge would take their side and it would all be a big fucking distraction circus for years. The judge would try to play president, put a moratorium on continuing to strike these boats, years would go by with the appeals, and before you know it, it'll be 2028...
But instead, there are two less smugglers and the other men who would've been glad to do it are now thinking twice about the whole thing.
I assume you read Art of War, and it's obvious to me that President Trump did too, but it seems like many previous presidents did not. And that's why we've been so taken advantage of for decades and are now so close to losing our country without our enemies ever firing a single shot.
the most evil, vicious and destructive men on this planet = PEDOPHILES
btw. remember the strikes in Iraq, where INNOCENT civilians were SHOT, a murder revealed by Julian Assange, who suffered YEARS exactly for that revelation??
Matt Taibbi of Racket news did actual journalism today and has a piece about the 20 year history of the double tap strike. This is nothing new. Both Republican and Democratic Presidents have authorized it. Obama really ramped it up. They would wait for the first responders and rescuers to show up before hitting the target again the NYT in 2012 did a piece where they were able to document over 50 civilians killed in these double tap strikes. So the whole story is nothing but DNC approved narrative that you have fallen for.
Fortunately you are not in command of the operation to destroy the Narcos who have participated in killing many Americans via the drug trade. I believe we should defeat/destroy our deadly enemies. That is being accomplished.
You must be a ‘recovering‘ Democrat ‘ . JAG was right there and told them they were within the law to fire again . The people on the boat were calling to their fellow smugglers for help . The ship was not destroyed . The mission was to destroy it . Period . It would be nice if we could live in a world where we are all nice to each other but we don’t - you are on the side of Drug smugglers trying to kill our children . let that sink in .
John, you can do so much better than to reiterate the sloppy points made by the Democratic Party of Destruction. Amen. To see how much evil and damage they have done in medicine and be blind to the drug pipe line is truly sad. Let alone I do not remember his voice when Obama by estimates killed over 3,000 with 563 drone strikes.
John, is this the strike from back in September? The one that the Washington Post blew up & theNYT of all people undercut the Washington Compost’s story?
If so, I don’t think it deserves more attention IMHO.
A great number of questions in your article. Tons of missing information. Seems like the worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking. My sense is that we have seen the horrendous results of drug cartel violence on their victims. And we have seen the horrors of the people under the boot heel of trafficker Madura. Not sure nitpicking is in order.
Note the four very very expensive outboards. Probably looking at well over $1K@. Doubt that very many poor fisherman have those. My guess it was going to meet and transfer the cargo to another ship. Those motors burn a lot of gas running at top speed. And speaking of lack of covering it seems that a fishing boat would have had one for people being in the sun so long fishing. Check the story of Mush Morton and the Buyo Maru Massacre. He listed what he did in his action report. There were no consequences. Of course there was a formal declaration of war by the US on Japan. On the other hand there was Obama's drone strikes. Supposedly killed close to 4,000 people. But there were a lot of consequences over that. oops no there wasn't. But that was different because???
Looks like a speed boat loaded with cargo in sealed drums. No fishing equipment. Obliterate these terrorists and leave nothing behind. Bomb the scraps that are floating too. Certainly any terrorists that may “survive” to murder more Americans on another day…
Next we need to start obliterating terrorists in the Middle East and also on American soil.
One thing is for certain, more decades of the status quo will only lead in the same direction we’ve been heading for the last few decades. I for one am not happy about our current trajectory and prefer to change course. The fake diplomatic games only go so far, on the playground as well as beyond. LFG, let’s put an end to the games and be sure we leave future generations in an America that resembles the original intention.
Remember John, we’re Americans; we will cross a frozen river, barefoot, at midnight, to kill our enemies while they sleep on Christmas Eve if necessary…
Btw. VENEZUELA has their own borders and thus their own FREEDOM to do what they want to!!! And SO USA!! Why the hell US does not watch own borders and NOT ALLOW that stuff to come in if the technology is so magnificent to see every single detail including faces of those apparent drug dealers??
People like you are the reason we are in this situation today. Your soft, unbiblical, feminized version of Christianity is why so many people can see through the fraud and turn away from the church. If you have your way, the church will continue to dwindle down to nothing but a few democrat women and America will cease to exist.
Maybe you should stop listening to libtards and start reading about American history and Christian history in general.
The Bible teaches a difference between killing and murder. Killing is justified in the right circumstances. The government and military have this authority from God.
It’s time for you to study up mejbcart, you cannot afford to be ignorant any longer.
Anyway, you make no sense. You prefer they wait for that boat to come closer to America before bombing them? What would you prefer they wait till they step foot on American soil then bomb them?
Wake up, the time for snowflakes crying about feelings are over. Man up…soldier
That is not true! Real Christians kill in what is called a "just" war or a "just" cause. If your little 7 year old daughter was being raped right in front of you, and you had a gun, you know you would kill the rapist. And you'd still be a Christian.
Amen, sad thing is that most “Christians” never think these issues through. They only think about love everything and tolerate anything. That’s not biblical.
Whenever someone asks; "what would Jesus do?"... Remind them that flipping over tables and chasing people around with a whip is not out of the realm of possibilities!
I will say something from another perspective... In the Christian Bible, GOD tells the Hebrews kill them all, their families and their animals, destroy their temples and Holy Places, take nothing, leave nothing. Saul had disobeyed GOD. David was the next King, and he was hunted, made big mistakes.. from the line we know what is next. This is a War against drugs running rampant in our lives.. Believe me, evil knows it's wrong. It's a line, they know it's a war too.
Thank you to the people that have the courage to make these difficult decisions. As GOD allows humans to make decisions, HE makes it clear.. there is no gray.
I’m sure the New York Times would be happy to print this. That is not a fishing boat with happy families out deep-sea fishing for tarpon. They’re bringing drugs to destroy America. Blow them to hell.
Exactly what are the characteristics that cause you, John, to determine that this is a fishing boat ? List them, please.
You are the proponent of the claim that this was a fishing boat, so it is up to you to prove to your readers that you have facts to back up your claim.
Until you do that...with sufficient detail, to prove your claim, you will not be believed.
Calling those, like Mical, "Silly" is beneath you and shows that you are bereft of facts and must resort to ad hominem attack to defend yourself.
VERY BAD FORM, Sir. You are capable of doing better.
When did the admired, rational John Leake join the democratic ‘defend the criminals club’? They are the bad guys killing US kids and other citizens by the tens of thousands. Yet you’re claiming that if we attempt to curb the aggression it’s a war crime? What??? Trump doesn’t want war with Venezuela. He wants them to stop trafficking drugs that kill us. It’s so blatantly obvious. You know the history! Are you overtired?
I’m trying to figure out if you got hacked. You usually seem sharper than this. Even on this single crappy image, you can tell this is not a fishing boat. Perhaps you know of a fish that needs to be trolled at 80 knots😜
Don’t think any of this is legit. Has all the trade marks of a CIA psyops to hide the real reason which is going into Venezuela to take their oil and gold and lithium and precious minerals. People seem to forget really quickly just who and the hell Marco Rubio is who is the king pin regarding this supposed narco terrorism conflict which is a joke to begin with. I am an ex drug dealer and worked with coyotes for years and can tell you that the overwhelming majority of drugs is not being smuggled by Venezuelan boat smugglers. I expanded one of the boat photos and a white guy had on a button up long sleeve shirt straight out of the CIA office and the outboard engines were all brand new and the video seemed to skip from one frame to the next prior to being destroyed. This story has CIA written all over it my friends. Rubio the guy along with Lindsey Graham and John McCain who armed the rebels a year before they attacked Benghazi. Thing story stinks and so does this entire administration doing 70 billion dollar deals with Pfizer and ai data centers for Zuckerberg and ordering 25 billion in new mRNA gene mutating vaccines to continue Trump Operation Warpspeed depopulation agenda for his Israeli puppet masters.
Bravo. And which is the most adamant anti Zionist country in South America that condemned and cut off Israel many years ago. Venezuela. And Maduro bring the biggest anti Zionist leader. Gee coukd that have anything to do with it. Oh no. It’s the bad men smuggling drugs on weird boats that must be destroyed. Umm the drug problem is not new. Why haven’t we been blowing up all these boats years ago. Or planes. Probably bc regime change wasn’t in the works. Foolish people using Christianity as justification.
John, you can do so much better than to reiterate the sloppy points made by the Democratic Party of Destruction. It was NOT a fishing boat. It was a cartel drug trafficking vessel, identified as such by methods you are not entitled to know (nor am I). The second strike was done because the two men were not poor survivors clinging to the wreckage; they were cartel members seen trying to salvage the drug cargo and contact other compatriots in the area. Stop being a whining podium for broadcasting sops that favor the most evil, vicious and destructive men on this planet, drug smugglers and cartel members. This is not an argument worthy of you.
Silly
John, I usually like your articles -but not this one. And, Mical made a legit point. You waving your hand and disregarding it by saying "silly" is like what the brainwashed liberals do. Don't act like them. Do you think you can just claim authority and disrespect any facts presented now??? You might as well go all the way and claim superior intelligence to go with that bullshit...
The boat was clearly NOT a fishing boat.
In fact, it clearly WAS a smugglers boat.
Do you want try to dispute that?
I didn't know that story about the opium wars, so that part was interesting... But I don't hate the Chinese for how they handled the situation because it was they who were being attacked in the first place. Kinda like what's going on now with Venezuela, so it was a very good comparison imo.
Also, what would happen if they rescued those two smugglers and brought them to court? It should be obvious that some liberal judge would take their side and it would all be a big fucking distraction circus for years. The judge would try to play president, put a moratorium on continuing to strike these boats, years would go by with the appeals, and before you know it, it'll be 2028...
But instead, there are two less smugglers and the other men who would've been glad to do it are now thinking twice about the whole thing.
I assume you read Art of War, and it's obvious to me that President Trump did too, but it seems like many previous presidents did not. And that's why we've been so taken advantage of for decades and are now so close to losing our country without our enemies ever firing a single shot.
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John
You sure are different lately. You can do better. I'll just leave it at that.
This does NOT look like Any fishing boat I’ve ever seen ! Looks like a FAST “ cigar boat 🛥️ “ Fishing boats are NOT speed boats 🚤!
the most evil, vicious and destructive men on this planet = PEDOPHILES
btw. remember the strikes in Iraq, where INNOCENT civilians were SHOT, a murder revealed by Julian Assange, who suffered YEARS exactly for that revelation??
Was Julian pardoned? NO.
Hm...
I agree, get better John, many of your other articles are truly enlightened, this was not
Matt Taibbi of Racket news did actual journalism today and has a piece about the 20 year history of the double tap strike. This is nothing new. Both Republican and Democratic Presidents have authorized it. Obama really ramped it up. They would wait for the first responders and rescuers to show up before hitting the target again the NYT in 2012 did a piece where they were able to document over 50 civilians killed in these double tap strikes. So the whole story is nothing but DNC approved narrative that you have fallen for.
Matt Taibbi is an excellent, trustworthy journalist.
Fortunately you are not in command of the operation to destroy the Narcos who have participated in killing many Americans via the drug trade. I believe we should defeat/destroy our deadly enemies. That is being accomplished.
destroy the deadly enemies on YOUR LAND, NOT THEIRS!
It was in international waters.
what kind of stupid plan is that!!!
I'm glad you're not the one making the calls!
You must be a ‘recovering‘ Democrat ‘ . JAG was right there and told them they were within the law to fire again . The people on the boat were calling to their fellow smugglers for help . The ship was not destroyed . The mission was to destroy it . Period . It would be nice if we could live in a world where we are all nice to each other but we don’t - you are on the side of Drug smugglers trying to kill our children . let that sink in .
John, you can do so much better than to reiterate the sloppy points made by the Democratic Party of Destruction. Amen. To see how much evil and damage they have done in medicine and be blind to the drug pipe line is truly sad. Let alone I do not remember his voice when Obama by estimates killed over 3,000 with 563 drone strikes.
"Democratic Party of Destruction.. To see how much evil and damage they have done in medicine and be blind to the drug pipe line is truly sad."
Are you so totally misinformed that you do not even know WHO CAME up with the WAR(p) S(p)EED?? Please remind me...
John, is this the strike from back in September? The one that the Washington Post blew up & theNYT of all people undercut the Washington Compost’s story?
If so, I don’t think it deserves more attention IMHO.
A great number of questions in your article. Tons of missing information. Seems like the worst kind of Monday morning quarterbacking. My sense is that we have seen the horrendous results of drug cartel violence on their victims. And we have seen the horrors of the people under the boot heel of trafficker Madura. Not sure nitpicking is in order.
Note the four very very expensive outboards. Probably looking at well over $1K@. Doubt that very many poor fisherman have those. My guess it was going to meet and transfer the cargo to another ship. Those motors burn a lot of gas running at top speed. And speaking of lack of covering it seems that a fishing boat would have had one for people being in the sun so long fishing. Check the story of Mush Morton and the Buyo Maru Massacre. He listed what he did in his action report. There were no consequences. Of course there was a formal declaration of war by the US on Japan. On the other hand there was Obama's drone strikes. Supposedly killed close to 4,000 people. But there were a lot of consequences over that. oops no there wasn't. But that was different because???
Agree 👍
Right, because every poor starving fisherman has a boat with 3/4 big outboards on it. What planet are you residing on?
Looks like a speed boat loaded with cargo in sealed drums. No fishing equipment. Obliterate these terrorists and leave nothing behind. Bomb the scraps that are floating too. Certainly any terrorists that may “survive” to murder more Americans on another day…
Next we need to start obliterating terrorists in the Middle East and also on American soil.
One thing is for certain, more decades of the status quo will only lead in the same direction we’ve been heading for the last few decades. I for one am not happy about our current trajectory and prefer to change course. The fake diplomatic games only go so far, on the playground as well as beyond. LFG, let’s put an end to the games and be sure we leave future generations in an America that resembles the original intention.
Remember John, we’re Americans; we will cross a frozen river, barefoot, at midnight, to kill our enemies while they sleep on Christmas Eve if necessary…
Onward Christian soldiers!
REAL CHRISTIANS DO NOT KILL!!!!!!!
Btw. VENEZUELA has their own borders and thus their own FREEDOM to do what they want to!!! And SO USA!! Why the hell US does not watch own borders and NOT ALLOW that stuff to come in if the technology is so magnificent to see every single detail including faces of those apparent drug dealers??
People like you are the reason we are in this situation today. Your soft, unbiblical, feminized version of Christianity is why so many people can see through the fraud and turn away from the church. If you have your way, the church will continue to dwindle down to nothing but a few democrat women and America will cease to exist.
Maybe you should stop listening to libtards and start reading about American history and Christian history in general.
The Bible teaches a difference between killing and murder. Killing is justified in the right circumstances. The government and military have this authority from God.
It’s time for you to study up mejbcart, you cannot afford to be ignorant any longer.
Anyway, you make no sense. You prefer they wait for that boat to come closer to America before bombing them? What would you prefer they wait till they step foot on American soil then bomb them?
Wake up, the time for snowflakes crying about feelings are over. Man up…soldier
That is not true! Real Christians kill in what is called a "just" war or a "just" cause. If your little 7 year old daughter was being raped right in front of you, and you had a gun, you know you would kill the rapist. And you'd still be a Christian.
Amen, sad thing is that most “Christians” never think these issues through. They only think about love everything and tolerate anything. That’s not biblical.
King David was a man after Gods Heart . He was at war . So are we with Narco terrorists
Truth
Whenever someone asks; "what would Jesus do?"... Remind them that flipping over tables and chasing people around with a whip is not out of the realm of possibilities!
Truth
Tolerance is not a Christian virtue
That's one way of putting it! Lol...
Forgiving is required, but you don't have to put up with those who say "sorry" and don't really mean it.
I will say something from another perspective... In the Christian Bible, GOD tells the Hebrews kill them all, their families and their animals, destroy their temples and Holy Places, take nothing, leave nothing. Saul had disobeyed GOD. David was the next King, and he was hunted, made big mistakes.. from the line we know what is next. This is a War against drugs running rampant in our lives.. Believe me, evil knows it's wrong. It's a line, they know it's a war too.
Thank you to the people that have the courage to make these difficult decisions. As GOD allows humans to make decisions, HE makes it clear.. there is no gray.
Patricia, yes! There are a whole lot of things in the Old Testament that you never hear about in Church!
Wow! Can you hear yourself?
I’m sure the New York Times would be happy to print this. That is not a fishing boat with happy families out deep-sea fishing for tarpon. They’re bringing drugs to destroy America. Blow them to hell.
👍
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Is this the boat with the two men who radioed to get the remaining drugs picked up to continue the transport operation?
Exactly what are the characteristics that cause you, John, to determine that this is a fishing boat ? List them, please.
You are the proponent of the claim that this was a fishing boat, so it is up to you to prove to your readers that you have facts to back up your claim.
Until you do that...with sufficient detail, to prove your claim, you will not be believed.
Calling those, like Mical, "Silly" is beneath you and shows that you are bereft of facts and must resort to ad hominem attack to defend yourself.
VERY BAD FORM, Sir. You are capable of doing better.
Just do it.....
Maybe this was not written by John.
When did the admired, rational John Leake join the democratic ‘defend the criminals club’? They are the bad guys killing US kids and other citizens by the tens of thousands. Yet you’re claiming that if we attempt to curb the aggression it’s a war crime? What??? Trump doesn’t want war with Venezuela. He wants them to stop trafficking drugs that kill us. It’s so blatantly obvious. You know the history! Are you overtired?
Trauma bond.
I’m trying to figure out if you got hacked. You usually seem sharper than this. Even on this single crappy image, you can tell this is not a fishing boat. Perhaps you know of a fish that needs to be trolled at 80 knots😜
Don’t think any of this is legit. Has all the trade marks of a CIA psyops to hide the real reason which is going into Venezuela to take their oil and gold and lithium and precious minerals. People seem to forget really quickly just who and the hell Marco Rubio is who is the king pin regarding this supposed narco terrorism conflict which is a joke to begin with. I am an ex drug dealer and worked with coyotes for years and can tell you that the overwhelming majority of drugs is not being smuggled by Venezuelan boat smugglers. I expanded one of the boat photos and a white guy had on a button up long sleeve shirt straight out of the CIA office and the outboard engines were all brand new and the video seemed to skip from one frame to the next prior to being destroyed. This story has CIA written all over it my friends. Rubio the guy along with Lindsey Graham and John McCain who armed the rebels a year before they attacked Benghazi. Thing story stinks and so does this entire administration doing 70 billion dollar deals with Pfizer and ai data centers for Zuckerberg and ordering 25 billion in new mRNA gene mutating vaccines to continue Trump Operation Warpspeed depopulation agenda for his Israeli puppet masters.
You blew up one of those pixelated grainy photos, and saw a button down shirt? That’s bullshit.
Bravo. And which is the most adamant anti Zionist country in South America that condemned and cut off Israel many years ago. Venezuela. And Maduro bring the biggest anti Zionist leader. Gee coukd that have anything to do with it. Oh no. It’s the bad men smuggling drugs on weird boats that must be destroyed. Umm the drug problem is not new. Why haven’t we been blowing up all these boats years ago. Or planes. Probably bc regime change wasn’t in the works. Foolish people using Christianity as justification.