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Mattis Takes Swipe At Trump: 'I Earned My Spurs On The Battlefield'

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  1. MrTLegal

    MrTLegal Well-Known Member

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    https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/7712...at-trump-i-earned-my-spurs-on-the-battlefield

    First off, kudos to Mattis for delivering some really funny jokes (I doubt he wrote them himself).

    Second, how many vets has Trump openly ripped on? McCain should have been enough but that was just a starting point. Families have been fair game for him as well. It's disgusting. I'm just surprised he still seems to have the majority of their support. Boggles the mind how anyone can support him at this point thought. He's proven himself a coward over and over again.

    I sincerely hope that more US Military reconsider their support for Trump after he decided to abandon our allies to slaughtered and tortured on a ****ing whim.
     
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    Here's the video:

     
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    Ouch! That one stings.
     
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    That self-serving war monger can shut the hell up. The only big mistake Trump has made was listening to this ******* and signing the budget that was full of military pork yet didn't have any wall funding.
     
    ArchStanton, Oct 18, 2019
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    My favorite was the "Meryl Streep of generals" line. In fact . . . he had quite the Meryl Streep smile while he said it . . . OMG Meryl Streep dressed up as Mattis just to deliver that line, didn't she?
     
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    Support our troops! Amiright?
     
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    It's quite funny and yet sad at the same time when liberals become super war hawks and want to invade every *******n country in the world fighting over worthless savages just because your fat girl lost the election.
     
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    Trump was never consistent on whether he was a hawk or not, and what's your evidence that Mattis wanted to "invade every *******n country in the world"? Sucks to hear you call some of our most loyal allies, who have spilled blood helping us fight ISIS, "worthless savages," but there's no accounting for tastes.

    And lol at Trumpists trying to use obesity as an argument. Just . . . it may be the cutest thing ever.
     
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    Left-wingers were against war before they were for it.
     
    MolonLabe2009, Oct 18, 2019
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    Revealing to hear what Trumpists have to say about the last adult in the room to be ejected from the WH.
     
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    There’s a very well defined difference between being warmongers and expecting an exit strategy that doesn’t involve orders issued through Twitter. There’s a smart way to do things and a dumb way. Trump chose the dumbest.
    And “your fat girl” girl coming from someone supporting the Obese and Chief is hilarious.
     
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    James Mattis, the big mouth who mocks Trump for not serving in Vietnam.....the same Vietnam that James Mattis avoided his damn self. What a POS. He didn't do a damn thing on ANY battlefield from 1969 until 2001. Then he led from behind in Afghanistan. Over rated is a compliment to this guy.
     
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    By constantly sending them to **** holes to die for no purpose???? Wtf!
     
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    Speaking of the wall, aren't you happy to learn that Trump stole money from Military Families to pay for his ****ing wall?
     
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    We fight wars abroad so we don’t have to fight them at home, but that’s not relevant to the current situation. At present Trump chose the most abrupt and idiotic exit strategy he could muster and it got our allies killed and endangered gains made against ISIS. The only thing worse than losing lives abroad is stupidly throwing away what they died for.
     
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    Meanwhile Trump earned his spurs from a fake doctor's note.
     
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    It's quite funny and yet sad at the same time when republicans become super pansies and want to abandon US allies in every ****ing country in the world who died fighting for our ideals just because your orange emperor said it was the right thing to do.
     
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    Your first sentence makes no sense.
     
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    Right wingers were for the war before they were against it.
     
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    His first sentence is the very fundamental argument behind launching the wars into Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11.

    To quote a conservative talkshow host that I heard last night, "If you do not want an endless war, then you should not make endless enemies. Our enemies get a vote in whether we need to fight."
     
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    Who just sent 2000 us troops to Saudi Arabia? Was that Mattis?
     
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    Read it again. For you that will be the bar for continuing this conversation. The rest will be lost on you otherwise.
     
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    Yes, absolutely. James Mattis likes that idea since that POS never held a rifle on any front line. He didn't serve in Vietnam...he was in the Naval ROTC. Mattis has just as much experience in Vietnam as Trump....NONE. Mattis and Trump never pulled a trigger on any front line. Mattis is just trying to sell books now. He's all hype.
     
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    Supporting allies and ensuring that they will fight with us when we need them - like when we ask them to fight ISIS - is a really basic and simple purpose to understand.
     
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    Says the guy cheering on the man who literally could not even write his own hype book.

    Did you also want to call Mattis a jew?
     
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