<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"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">O</span>n Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span></span></i></span><span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">we don't</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"> know if that happened.  We have accusations without evidence.  Some of the video of boats being shot to hell was AI generated,</span></i></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…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??<span> John K Clark</span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> The intent was to get the drug runners </i><br></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Government goo<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n</span>s have never provided a scrap of evidence that those boats contained any drugs at all.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> All we have is the word of POTUS which, given his record for veracity, is worth precisely nothing. </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">to stop.</font></i><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </b></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Stopping <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the boat </span>was certainly not the government thug's only intention because after the first bombing run the publicly released video clearly shows that the boat had indeed stopped because the boat had been capsized, and there were 2 wounded survivors in the water hanging onto it. But the government was still not satisfied, they wanted more blood. Those who have seen the unreleased uncensored version say it also shows the two men waving to the drone or the airplane or whatever it was that was taking the video, I don't know how that gesture can be interpreted other than a sign of surrender and a plea to be rescued; but instead the government bombed (or possibly machine-gunned) the helpless<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>survivors and murdered them.</b></font><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-style:italic;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>If you look at the first several videos released, you will notice some oddities,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></i></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i>such as</i><span class="gmail_default" style=""><i>  </i>[blah blah]<i> </i></span></span></font><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i>Another video appeared to be a test, possibly using a model.</i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So your theory is that the government incompetently<span class="gmail_default" style=""> faked a video </span>to make them look like war criminals when really they were not and released that video to the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">general </span>public,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> but they refuse to release to the public the real unfaked video which shows them to be true paragons of virtue. Now Spike be honest, do you really think that is an example of critical thinking? </span></b></font></div><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The one I can’t explain is how they got to Maduro, got him out alive without any US fatalities. </font></i></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Somebody in Maduro's<span class="gmail_default" style=""> inner circle didn't like him very much and figured the US would reward him if he revealed information about </span>Maduro's<span class="gmail_default" style=""> exact location and security arrangements. And the morale of the Venezuelan army had been extremely low for years, very few soldiers were willing to die for </span></b></font><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Maduro<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></b><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b style=""><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="" size="4">John K Clark</font></span><br></b></div></div>
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