Wesley Clark says Trump not serving in Vietnam 'might have been for the best'

[left-of-center2012]

Former U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark said President Trump dodging the draft during the Vietnam War “might have been for the best” in light of reports that he was aware of intelligence that Russia paid secret bounties to militants to kill U.S. troops and failed to act.

A West Point graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Clark also ran for president during the 2004 election, but dropped out early that year while endorsing eventual Democratic nominee John Kerry.

“President Trump receives well-deserved criticism for failing to serve his country in Vietnam,” Clark, a highly-decorated general who served as the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO under President Clinton, wrote in an op-ed for USA Today.

“Yet, given the lack of loyalty to the troops he has displayed in recent months, that might have been for the best,” Clark added. “Were he in A Company back then, he wouldn’t have charged across that bridge — he would have hung back and let the rest of us fend for ourselves. I and the others might never have made it home.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/505471-wesley-clark-says-trump-not-serving-in-vietnam-might-have-been-for-the-best-in

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I got a feeling

that if Li’l Donnie had somehow failed to get himself out of going to Vietnam, he would have taken extreme action on the order of paying someone to shoot him in the foot.

[IronLionZion]

25. He would shoot himself in the foot

and then stick it in his mouth

[KS Toronado]

27. No, not in his bone spurs, he'd have went for one of those million dollar wounds,

like Forrest Gump received. And he would have demanded two scoops of ice cream to go with his
million dollars.

[GemDigger]

2. No doubt about that General.

I wouldn't trust that rat with body lice, never mind with soldiers.

[lpbk2713]

3. He would have gotten good people killed just to protect his sorry ass.

He would have made numerous grandstanding appearances
with the largest personal security detail ever.

[BGBD]

4. I've always liked Clark.

He was my guy in the 2004 primaries.

[Blasphemer]

15. Mine too! He was sounding the alarm bells about Russia way back then... nt

[jaxexpat]

22. Yes he was.

And stupid me thought it was hyperbole. Sometimes my younger self embarrasses me.

[CTyankee]

40. Mine, too. I liked his politics and I thought (wrongly) that the repubs would have a hard time

running against a military guy. (I also have a thing for men in uniforms. Bad, I know )

[UTUSN]

5. Ouch, General, way to go!

[Javaman]

6. if the orange asshole hadn't been born rich...

he would have been a serial killer.

[lagomorph777]

31. instead, he's a mass killer.

Thanks to his pretend "wealth" and his power.

[Javaman]

44. very good point. mass killer. nt

[Liberal In Texas]

8. +1

[TheBlackAdder]

16. I'm sure the guys in his military school threatened him every day with that very thing.

[lagomorph777]

32. Swirlies and wedgies every day.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

36. As a teen, malevolent#45 hung a quiet boy by his feet from 2story window

..as relayed by Prof. Mcwhorter, linquist expert during interview with Brian Williams [video @link.]

Dr. McWhorter re: trump has never evolved or made effort to be a better president
[msnbc:Williams/Mcwhorter 9/7/2018 ]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/linguist-expert-trump-sounds-like-your-beer-swilling-uncle-1315606083641&ved=2ahUKEwiig9Kkk7npAhXNuZ4KHbilACwQwqsBMAB6BAgKEAM&usg=AOvVaw0PaQ4i9BTF5KyuSko9cD56

[sarge43]

39. The most likely scenario

Another possibility: fire fight, he's wounded, the platoon pulls out, corporal shouts, "Sarge, the lieutenant is still back there!", sarge, "Can't hear you! Haul ass people!" Leave no one behind? Sometimes there's exceptions.

The other: He's in a support MOS. Does about an hour's worth of work a day and fucks that up. Off duty, he's at the local knocking shops and bars doing under the table deals.

[smirkymonkey]

43. +1000

Definitely would have been fragged.

[mnmoderatedem]

9. nah, trump probably would have charged that bridge

just like he probably would have charged into that school and brought down that school shooter

[left-of-center2012]

11. Unarmed

Didn't he say he'd have charged into the school unarmed?

[Thomas Hurt]

10. He would have been an incompetent soldier...

got himself killed, probably others as well, if he didn't get fragged.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. :::Captain to soldier in a foxhole:::: "Where's Trump?"

1st Soldier; “Over there, I think”

2nd Soldier; “And over here”

3rd Soldier; “Over here too”

4th Soldier from about 20 yards away; “He’s over here also”

Captain; “I see. AWOL again, eh?”

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

13. I'm fairly certain he would have been a war criminal

Giggling maniacally while shooting civilians. Just like the guys he's been pardoning.

Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road.
A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed.
Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump.
His troops have suffered a very different fate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/?itid=hp_hp-top-table-low_platoon-hed-blurb%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

[packman]

24. Link behind a paywall - Here's another

http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/He-was-convicted-of-murder-then-pardoned-by-Trump.-His-troops-suffered-a-different-fate..html

[lagomorph777]

33. Lt. Calley

[TheBlackAdder]

14. It doesn't matter. He would have just gotten Neidermeyered within the first few weeks in Vietnam.

.



.

[Brother Buzz]

18. This dumb draftee did not know Neidermeyer became a verb

[TheBlackAdder]

29. Eh, I made it one. Filing the copyright now.

[jls4561]

37. Good. File that copyright before ugly Ivanka does.

[TheBlackAdder]

38. But, I don't know how to do copyrights in China. 😂

[TNNurse]

20. My first thought.

[moondust]

17. You wouldn't want him in your unit.

Totally selfish, vindictive, undisciplined, could get a lot of good people killed.

[RedSpartan]

21. He would have been fragged in about two minutes.

[Efilroft Sul]

35. Exactly my thought.

[Reader Rabbit]

41. I was thinking the same.

He wouldn't have lasted long as either a grunt or an officer.

[jmowreader]

23. I'm going to disagree with everyone here

Trump wouldn't have had the opportunity to get good men killed. As soon as he got to basic training, his drill sergeants would have taken one look at him and said, "son, the Quartermaster Corps needs men like you."

He would have spent his whole hitch issuing C-rations and toilet paper at base camp, and participating in "patterns of minor misconduct" he hopes would get him kicked out, but would only have got him demoted seven or eight times.

[DinahMoeHum]

30. I dunno, he could still be fragged even if he was just a REMF. . .

(Rear Echelon Mother Fucker)




#newrostrong

[Brother Buzz]

34. Are you kidding? The Quartermaster Corps would have been the orange anus' dream assignment

There would have been a beaten path out the back door of the Quonset hut with him selling really cool shit to the enemy

[jmowreader]

45. And with any luck, he would have been caught

Officers could get away with that shit. Enlisted men tended to get hanged by the toes over the base camp gate as a warning to the others.

[calimary]

26. Ouch!!!

[Ted Jason]

28. Not Only That, General

Benedict Trump would have told the Vietcong about all your company's battle plans and capabilities.

[crickets]

42. Brutal assessment, well deserved. Thank you, General.

"Unfortunately, the president's first reaction was not, 'How can I protect the troops?'" Clark wrote. "It was, 'How can I protect myself?'"

Bingo.

[tblue37]

46. Good man. He was my first choice in 2004. nt

[Cha]

47. Wow! that's putting it in some Cold Blooded Shit Perspective!

TY, Gen Clark!