Yet the Secretary of Defense still gave the order: “kill everybody” - after the first strike, after operators saw survivors in the water, after it was clear they posed no threat. A second missile was launched just to finish the job. Hegseth didn’t make a tough call. He made an unlawful one.

Ordering their death anyway crosses an even brighter line: the ban on no quarter - the absolute rule that you do not kill people who cannot fight back. Every commander knows this. Every officer is trained on it. These aren’t obscure legal theories. They’re the bedrock of lawful command.

Congress must investigate. The Senate must finally take up Additional Protocol II, something military lawyers have demanded for decades, and every American should understand the stakes:

The United States does not give “no quarter.” And if someone tried, the law requires us to say no.

Veterans like me spent our lives enforcing the rules that keep our troops honorable and our country safe. I will not sit quietly while political appointees or politicians try to normalize war crimes.

This is my district. Gimenez must go. You should have more engagement with this

Dang! Keep fighting Phil!

Doing both. I am both shocked, disappointed, and ready to beat this guy.