US strikes another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four, amid escalating questions about its counter-drug offensive

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5. Some wordsmithing going on there . . .

MSN is good at that.
They can make government sanctioned murder sound like a normal everyday thing by using the carefully considered 'right' words.

Unconfirmed and unrecorded comment from Kegsbreath:

"Yeah, we killed some people, in international waters too, we had no actual evidence they were being naughty, but we spiked them from a great height, because we wanted to, and we could. It felt good! "

Kegsbreath then went on and mumbled something about . . . Nobel peace prize . . . greatest military leader since Patton . . . fog of war . . .
Aides had to help him out of view as he staggered around somewhat intoxicated.