Old_Trapper70
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We need more of this, not more capitulation to the fool:
http://samuel-warde.com/2017/03/mon...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
"Speaking at a Tuesday reception for U.S. senators and their spouses, Trump stated that he had just concluded a “long call” with Defense Secretary James Mattis.
“We just had a call — long call from General Mattis. And, John, I know, is very happy to hear that, but he knows better than anybody, we’re doing very well in Iraq. Our soldiers are fighting and fighting like never before, and the results are very, very good. So I just wanted to let everyone know.”
Williams, who served in both the Marines and the Navy, becoming the first African American enlisted Marine to complete and graduate both the Naval Academy Prep School and Annapolis, took offense, writing:
'I heard the President’s remark that troops in Iraq are “fighting like never before” – yet another example of careless words from he whose words can move markets and move armies.
This President has put a relatively small number of troops on the ground in Iraq – in stating these troops are “fighting like never before” he necessarily implies that the troops previously in Iraq over the past decade plus somehow weren’t fighting hard, or worse that they were somehow derelict – so I would say:
“Mr. President, you signed up to be the Commander in Chief, HAVE YOU NO DECENCY SIR. Thousands of troops paid the ultimate price on Iraq while you were on the NY social circuit and hosting a reality TV show. Many more thousands came back badly wounded, more still came back with invisible injuries they may well bear for life. Their sacrifice, their blood, sweat and tears in battle, should not be denigrated by a television star, now President whose only military experience was dodging the draft.” '
http://samuel-warde.com/2017/03/mon...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
"Speaking at a Tuesday reception for U.S. senators and their spouses, Trump stated that he had just concluded a “long call” with Defense Secretary James Mattis.
“We just had a call — long call from General Mattis. And, John, I know, is very happy to hear that, but he knows better than anybody, we’re doing very well in Iraq. Our soldiers are fighting and fighting like never before, and the results are very, very good. So I just wanted to let everyone know.”
Williams, who served in both the Marines and the Navy, becoming the first African American enlisted Marine to complete and graduate both the Naval Academy Prep School and Annapolis, took offense, writing:
'I heard the President’s remark that troops in Iraq are “fighting like never before” – yet another example of careless words from he whose words can move markets and move armies.
This President has put a relatively small number of troops on the ground in Iraq – in stating these troops are “fighting like never before” he necessarily implies that the troops previously in Iraq over the past decade plus somehow weren’t fighting hard, or worse that they were somehow derelict – so I would say:
“Mr. President, you signed up to be the Commander in Chief, HAVE YOU NO DECENCY SIR. Thousands of troops paid the ultimate price on Iraq while you were on the NY social circuit and hosting a reality TV show. Many more thousands came back badly wounded, more still came back with invisible injuries they may well bear for life. Their sacrifice, their blood, sweat and tears in battle, should not be denigrated by a television star, now President whose only military experience was dodging the draft.” '
