House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that the US military's controversial September 2 Venezuela drug boat strikes were "entirely appropriate" and that the two initial survivors who were killed in a follow-on strike were "able-bodied."

Johnson made the comments after viewing a video of the September 2 boat strikes and receiving a briefing from the commander who oversaw the mission, CBS news reported.

The September 2 strike was the first of at least 22 known strikes by the Trump administration on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean that have killed at least 87 people.

It marked the beginning of a new policy of killing suspected drug traffickers that has come under fire from critics who say it is illegal and needlessly inhumane.

Johnson reportedly said he's satisfied wi

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