<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>.  Was it legal orders to kill the boat survivors?  Or a war crime?  I don't expect an answer....</i></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail-Lm gmail-ng gmail-Vt" style="background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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");background-repeat:repeat-x;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;outline:none"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> ></span>Keith we don't</span> know if that happened.  We have accusations without evidence.  Some of the video of boats being shot to hell was AI generated,</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That is ridiculous! The War Department is the one that released the video, why on earth would they fake the evidence to make them look like war criminals when really they were not?? The unedited video was shown to members of Congress, and Representative Jim Himes and Senator Jack Reed both described it as "<i>deeply disturbing<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></i>"<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="">They</span> said it showed two men survived the first explosion and seemed to be injured,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="">they were </span>clinging to the wreckage for nearly an hour before a second "<i>double-tap</i>" strike killed both of them. Pete Hegseth has refused to release the unedited footage to the public, and you could be certain if it proved that Himes and Reed were lying about what they saw he would have.</b><br></font><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And nobody<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> who watched the video has claimed that Himes <span class="gmail_default" style="">and</span> Reed were lying about what they saw,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> not even the hard-core MAGA loonies. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">John K Clark</b></font></span></div></div></div>