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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArmy Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman:
Veterans are certainly not monolithic in that opinion.
This idiotic criticism of the @POTUS by media elites is absurd, tweeted retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified before Congress ahead of Donald Trumps first impeachment trial. They take umbrage over the use of the military as props, completely missing the content of his message
THE NATION IS IN DANGER! MAGA fascist (sic) are trying to end our democracy. Get a clue and some perspective.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/politics/home-front-biden-marines-philadelphia-speech-reaction/index.html
I apologize for the CNN link, I no longer watch them.
However, Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman words need to be heard.
"THE NATION IS IN DANGER! MAGA fascist (sic) are trying to end our democracy."
The Wizard
(12,563 posts)to say Nazi.
peppertree
(21,793 posts)And how! Every GOP war since 1991 has been little more than a campaign event.
And of course, a cash cow. Can't forget that.
LT Barclay
(2,626 posts)wasn't anything to brag about. No purpose other than US trying to flex imperial muscle by picking a fight with a dying empire, and screwing over the locals in the process.
peppertree
(21,793 posts)It's all about theater for them.
They wave the flag around, caterwaul about Jane Fonda and flag-burners, and raise the defense budget every chance they get - and this, to many of our fellow voters, makes them 'super-duper patriots'.
They're super at duping them alright.
former9thward
(32,215 posts)LT Barclay
(2,626 posts)most ardent right winger try to say it was a victory. The country is still a mess and the whole thing was a sham, with a daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador crying in her testimony to the UN about Iraqi soldiers taking babies from incubators.
Second, only congress has the right to declare war. Wasn't declared, wasn't a war, doesn't count.
former9thward
(32,215 posts)By your weird definitions. By your definition we have only had two wars since 1900. Tell that to all the families of those who have died in all of our "non-wars" during that period.
LT Barclay
(2,626 posts)States.
Look it up.
And maybe if someone had told that to those families, there would be a lot fewer republican families because they'd be sit of their relatives dying for nothing.
LT Barclay
(2,626 posts)you're going to try to call the Gulf War a "victory".
Let's review what happened there.
The CIA overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran and installed the Shah as a puppet. Then when the Iranians overthrew the Shah we armed Saddam Hussein to "balance" things (promote US corporate interests). Then we basically invited Hussein to invade Kuwait, and then chased him out, and you want to call that a "victory"?
That's just beyond wierd. Go explain that one to the families you are so concerned about.
former9thward
(32,215 posts)We fulfilled the objectives of the UN resolution and left. Sorry to disappoint you...
LT Barclay
(2,626 posts)You're like my kid, you can't let things go when you're wrong. I don't know why you invited yourself into this discussion.
My only disappointment is I keep getting sucked into wasting time replying to you.
crickets
(26,005 posts)sheshe2
(84,154 posts)GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,130 posts).
sheshe2
(84,154 posts)TY
Bev54
(10,108 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,020 posts)SQUIRL. i saw how CEE N N pimped trump. attacked the crone. and they ain't happy cause biden not thier pic. democrats make them look stupid too. they LUVED W.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,628 posts)Martin68
(23,047 posts)Cozmo
(1,402 posts)dchill
(38,675 posts)Cha
(298,310 posts)sheshe2
(84,154 posts)Cha
(298,310 posts)Democracy and the USA has GD FASCISM for their Fucking Media!
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman Tweet is Perfect to see where at least on Twitter we can call the m$$$$$m OUT for their Fascist SHIT!
Such language!
Cha
(298,310 posts)TY, she!
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