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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHegseth sounds like an unhinged madman.
Hegseth: "Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down"Link to tweet
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Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)Smash, kill, destroy everything in sight.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)Did he really say that?
And of course, there are plenty others in the take over who warrant a double take.
Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)They get off on it.
And yes Trump and Hegseth love the attention.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)You too can be a Cabinet Secretary.
Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)Perfect for his crime syndicate designed to destroy and humiliate the US.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)I wrote a piece on DU, in December of 2024, predicting the court jesters would be in charge of the destruction.
As I recall, I underestimated how bad it would be. I need to find it.
Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)And yes we both underestimated how bad it would be.
And it is only beginning now.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)This is one of the goals of a brutal regime.
To create a docile and compliant population.
Hi YD
How are you doing?
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)In many dictatorships people are too tired, too hungry, too busy to rebel.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)I posted it again.
Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)You knew what was going to happen.
You spelled it out.
But reality has turned out even worse than we could have imagined.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)The stomach churns.
Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)Or will it blow your mind and everyone who reads it?
Or perhaps we can no longer even guess at the future.
yellow dahlia
(5,572 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,815 posts)And I am at a loss for words if I had to write it.
And that hardly ever happens.
spanone
(141,348 posts)Madness and murder on steroids
John1956PA
(4,917 posts)No. 1. "There are no rules."
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,871 posts)Dept of war and all these aggressive phrases he used..he is mental, out of control
orangecrush
(29,895 posts)leftstreet
(40,092 posts)most likely
Bettie
(19,579 posts)vomit. What the actual fuck?
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,984 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,851 posts)Loudmouth in the Cafeteria Type.
malaise
(295,181 posts)Rec
dalton99a
(93,599 posts)PatSeg
(53,064 posts)This is madness.
PCIntern
(28,221 posts)No rules? Ok we can play that way and we have a much more sophisticated manner of torture than you do. If you think the Hanoi Hilton was bad, you aint seen nothing yet .
maxsolomon
(38,535 posts)How they'll preen and crow about this war - for the rest of our lives.
MineralMan
(151,076 posts)Initech
(108,466 posts):grr;
City Lights
(25,658 posts)It sickens me to hear all these "pro-life Christians" getting off on killing.
Wiz Imp
(9,756 posts)Hegseth sounds like IS an unhinged madman.
Blues Heron
(8,663 posts)Torchlight
(6,702 posts)I can't take him any more seriously than I could one of the Three Stooges saying the exact same thing.
OLDMDDEM
(3,139 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,269 posts)SWBTATTReg
(26,227 posts)Walleye
(44,466 posts)They dont believe in it and its too difficult
shanti
(21,796 posts)hes tweaking, with that fast talking.