re: Hegseth will be impeached if he doesn’t resign or get fired - Ted Cruz

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What is the difference between this and an AC-130 continuing to shoot people as they run away?

Or an Apache helicopter continuing to fire on people who are down and no longer a threat.

There are various videos of this on the internet where we keep firing until we are sure they are dead.

And in the first Iraq War, we killed hundreds of Iraqi military personnel as they fled back to Iraq from Kuwait. They were giving up, and we killed them anyway.

What's the difference?

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If you want to lobby Congress to impeach or bring charges to those responsible for the above you won't get an argument from me. Killing folks who are no longer engaged in combat is dubiously legal at best and generally frowned upon in general.

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Ah yes. The retroactive “those are bad, too.” But you weren’t championing punishment for those.

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I haven't championed punishment for anyone. I'm agreeing with you that the above situations are comparable.