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Tom Cotton’s defense of killing shipwreck survivors: they were moving

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 07, 2025
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Senator Tom Cotton has a message for anyone troubled by U.S. military strikes that killed survivors clinging to a capsized boat: relax, they were moving around.

In an interview with NBC News‘ “Meet the Press,” Cotton defended the September 2 “double tap” strike that killed survivors of an initial attack on an alle…

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