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Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:03 PM Jan 2020

Trump is much too stupid & selfish to know about....."WAR"

I doubt he has read much about it. If he did, then he would know what it represents and is. Much like Bush Jr. who started another war. Like it is some kind of game. There are so many books about the horrors of war, and how it needs to be avoided at all costs. Iraq knows and many families in the U.S. know.

Trump could call another politician who knows. Tammy Duckworth, a senator from Illinois knows. My guess is that she would tell him. I doubt that Trump would listen to a woman though...

Trump doesn't know and he doesn't care in my opinion.

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Siwsan

(26,267 posts)
1. Well, he comes from generations of a family with pretty much ZERO military service
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:07 PM
Jan 2020

Unlike many of us, he has no first, second, third, fourth or even fifth hand knowledge of what war is like.

demigoddess

(6,641 posts)
13. too bad he doesn't have a family like me
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 04:54 PM
Jan 2020

father in WWII & Korea, Dad in Korea, Uncle in WWII, about four other uncles who were in military, one I think in Vietnam. One thing I know, war doesn't solve much of anything.

Siwsan

(26,267 posts)
14. I had 3 uncles, overseas, in WWII. Two in combat. One in support
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 05:10 PM
Jan 2020

All in all, 5 of my uncles and my father were WWII veterans (my father enlisted, right out of high school, and at the very end of the war). Another uncle was a Korean War era veteran. He was set to go into combat when his appendix burst. He ended up serving in Japan and Germany.

Pretty much every generation of my family has served in the military since the first branch arrived, before the Revolutionary War. In the two remaining generations there are 4 veterans - me, 2 of my cousins and my nephew.

I have no patience with a yellow bellied, draft ducking, malingering chicken hawk making any decisions about sending troops into battle.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
4. Good for ??? a few times, maybe?
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:15 PM
Jan 2020

WWII... to stop Hitler?
Civil War....to stop South from starting another country?

Those two maybe???

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
6. Sorry if my reference was obscure. "War!" was a counter-culture classic in my youth.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:25 PM
Jan 2020

It was perhaps the most popular anti-war tune of the Vietnam era.

My post consisted of the lyrics that immediately follow the opening exclamation "WAR!"

Bob Loblaw

(1,900 posts)
10. Absolutely nuthin'
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:36 PM
Jan 2020

Your reference wasn't obscure. Frankly I don't know how anyone could have missed it.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Here you go,
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:24 PM
Jan 2020

It's all about Donnie and You Can Not Impeach A Wartime President! He bases this on what his pal Hannity and his Religious Advisor tells him.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
7. Donnie doesn't have a clue...Much too stupid to know, Yes "It's all about Donnie..."
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:29 PM
Jan 2020

Donnie thinks he can get away with anything any time. Donnie will finally learn a lesson, and it won't be pretty.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. The Orange Anus has his Clue.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:35 PM
Jan 2020

It is all about him and his survival instincts. Guy's like him always have someone who loves their Coattail effects,and will Prostitute them selves in order to hang on to those coattails.

Big glaring examples are Rudy G.and Billy Barr as well as others. All about access to power and money.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
12. He knows the wealthy and powerful can get wealthier and more powerful.
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 03:43 PM
Jan 2020


And people in their class don't usually have kids in the military, so they
don't have to worry about any harm hitting too close to home.

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