{"id":60111,"date":"2025-12-04T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60111"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:06:52","slug":"just-saying-the-butcher-of-the-carribean-needs-to-be-tried-for-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60111","title":{"rendered":"JUST SAYING:  The Butcher of the Carribean Needs to be Tried for War Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top-header js-cet-subunit \">\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Pete Hegseth Faces Deepening Scrutiny From Congress Over Boat Strikes \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/pete-hegseth-congress-scrutiny_n_69311369e4b0824b6df7f115#comments\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dek\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cThese are serious charges, and that\u2019s the reason we\u2019re going to have special oversight,\u201d said Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">**************<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">JUST SAYING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>The <em>Butcher of the Caribbean<\/em>\u2014Pete Hegseth\u2014needs to be hauled off that Pentagon stage, <\/strong>stripped of his power, and put on trial for murder and war crimes committed in international waters. No more euphemisms. No more excuses. He ordered killings on the high seas, and people died. The world deserves accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Hegseth and his orange handler are cut from the same rotten cloth<\/strong>\u2014two cruel, vindictive psychopaths who seem to take pleasure in unleashing pain on the poor, the powerless, and anyone who can\u2019t fight back. Their bloodlust masquerades as \u201cpolicy,\u201d but it\u2019s nothing more than state-sanctioned brutality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>And the performance? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Predictable as clockwork. Hegseth clutches a Bible like a prop, drapes himself in the flag like a costume, and preaches to the <strong>Fox-fed MAGA base as if God himself rubber-stamped every atrocity.<\/strong> It\u2019s all theater\u2014a desperate plea for Trump\u2019s approval and the applause of the cult that cheers on cruelty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>The world sees the bodies in the water. The justice system needs to see Hegseth in the defendant\u2019s chair.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth Faces Deepening Scrutiny From Congress Over Boat Strikes \u2014 Huffington Post \u201cThese are serious charges, and that\u2019s the reason we\u2019re going to have special oversight,\u201d said Sen. 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