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Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton flips the truth re. the drug boat
In order to justify the repeated strikes on the accused drug boat on September 2nd, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton recently made a ridiculous statement. After viewing the video of the second tap against the Venezuelan drug boat damaged by U.S. munitions, Senator Cotton said, “the only reason the narco-terrorists didn’t flip their boat back over and continue their mission was because our military didn’t give them a chance.” A bizarre assertion.
I don’t know much about this attack on the boat, but I do know that two men in the water cannot flip a complete and sunken 30 foot boat over. Even if they did get it over, it would be full of water. Even if they did get it over, the three engines would be destroyed from the salt water inhaled when the boat overturned at high speed. The electrical system would be fried as well. It is 100% impossible for these two men in the water to flip their boat back over and continue their mission.
Having said all this, I have not seen the video of the second tap. I suspect the boat was badly damaged and not just overturned. In any case, it’s obvious that Senator Cotton has never been near a boat.
Media reports say that Admiral Frank Bradley testified to U.S. lawmakers that there was only a table sized piece of the bow left after the first strike. Meanwhile the stern and three outboard engines would be at the bottom of the ocean. For more than 30 minutes, Bradley said, he observed the two survivors among the wreckage. A different story than what Senator Cotton said he saw.
It’s hard to imagine how Senator Tom Cotton could watch the video and say that the two survivors could flip the boat back over and continue the mission, if there was only a table sized piece of the bow left with no engines.
Admiral Bradley told U.S. lawmakers that the first strike damaged the boat, and the second strike killed the two survivors, but did not sink the rest of the boat. Then he ordered a third and a fourth strike to complete the mission. I had not heard that version. The strikes were made with a GBU-69 Glide Bomb at an estimated cost of from $100,000 to $300,000 each, U.S. dollars.
There are a lot of different versions of this story, and it will be hard to know which is correct until we see the video of the four "glided munitions" strikes. Hopefully the full videos will be made public soon.
It amazes me that politicians haven’t learned yet that there is no place to hide and no chance of success at distorting events. There are so many cameras and microphones around now, the truth will eventually come out.
Thanks for reading,
Bill.
I don’t know much about this attack on the boat, but I do know that two men in the water cannot flip a complete and sunken 30 foot boat over. Even if they did get it over, it would be full of water. Even if they did get it over, the three engines would be destroyed from the salt water inhaled when the boat overturned at high speed. The electrical system would be fried as well. It is 100% impossible for these two men in the water to flip their boat back over and continue their mission.
Having said all this, I have not seen the video of the second tap. I suspect the boat was badly damaged and not just overturned. In any case, it’s obvious that Senator Cotton has never been near a boat.
Media reports say that Admiral Frank Bradley testified to U.S. lawmakers that there was only a table sized piece of the bow left after the first strike. Meanwhile the stern and three outboard engines would be at the bottom of the ocean. For more than 30 minutes, Bradley said, he observed the two survivors among the wreckage. A different story than what Senator Cotton said he saw.
It’s hard to imagine how Senator Tom Cotton could watch the video and say that the two survivors could flip the boat back over and continue the mission, if there was only a table sized piece of the bow left with no engines.
Admiral Bradley told U.S. lawmakers that the first strike damaged the boat, and the second strike killed the two survivors, but did not sink the rest of the boat. Then he ordered a third and a fourth strike to complete the mission. I had not heard that version. The strikes were made with a GBU-69 Glide Bomb at an estimated cost of from $100,000 to $300,000 each, U.S. dollars.
There are a lot of different versions of this story, and it will be hard to know which is correct until we see the video of the four "glided munitions" strikes. Hopefully the full videos will be made public soon.
It amazes me that politicians haven’t learned yet that there is no place to hide and no chance of success at distorting events. There are so many cameras and microphones around now, the truth will eventually come out.
Thanks for reading,
Bill.