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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaurence Tribe: Trump said, "In the fields and jungles of Vietnam, they delivered a swift...
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Text: Laurence Tribe: Trump said, In the fields and jungles of Vietnam, they delivered a swift and swiffian, It was swift and it was sweeping like nobodys ever seen happen. A victory in Operation Desert Storm, a lot of you were involved in that. A lot of you were involved. That was a quick one. OMG
Botany
(70,512 posts)" ... it was sweeping like nobodys ever seen happen."
3Hotdogs
(12,390 posts)"But we would'a won it bigly, if I could'a got rid of my bone spur and took up a rifle. I'm gonna tell 'em that in Jacksonville next month."
Botany
(70,512 posts)But then again I am an optimist.
BTW isn't Saigon now Ho Chi Minh City? How could any vet ever vote for that man?
keithbvadu2
(36,818 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,650 posts)So far.
Botany
(70,512 posts)zero deaths
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)dem4decades
(11,296 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)agingdem
(7,850 posts)...nearly 10 years and almost 60,000 lost American soldiers...very swift
dware
(12,385 posts)the Vietnam War was, not just John Kerry.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)dware
(12,385 posts)I didn't catch the inference, but now that you mention it, I think that's correct.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)The stream of thoughts coming out of Trump are getting very scary....I fear more what he is capable of doing acting on whatever the f-ck those thoughts are....
agingdem
(7,850 posts)in Princess Bride.. garbled mush-mouth verbal diarrhea
leftieNanner
(15,114 posts)Scary thread - but thanks for the chuckle.
sop
(10,191 posts)Ohiya
(2,234 posts)bullimiami
(13,095 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Phu Quoc, Vietnam
spooky3
(34,456 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)In the JUNGLES of Vietnam! Damn what a fighting force!!
Baitball Blogger
(46,723 posts)Like, "I walked in a desert with a horse with no name, it felt good to be out of the rain."
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)or whatever.
dware
(12,385 posts)I served two tours in Vietnam and fought in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, funny thing is, I don't remember those being the same combat zone.
Y'all know the old saying, it's better to keep quiet and let people think you're an imbecile rather than to open your mouth and confirm you're an imbecile.
The Mango Menace confirms every minute that he's a flaming imbecile.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)Your service and intelligence and humor make you a million times more qualified to be our president.
Although I wouldn't want that job at all, I'll just stick to driving my truck.
Have a joyous and peaceful Sunday.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)Ill buy you a beer or a rum drink! I lost some classmates in Vietnam and still have pain when I hear the name of that war.
dware
(12,385 posts)I'll definitely take you up on your offer.
I too lost a lot of friends in that useless war.
Cheers on a beautiful Sunday.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)like facebook have shown.
mwb970
(11,360 posts)dware
(12,385 posts)PaulRevere08
(449 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Mossfern
(2,511 posts)entire quote on video?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)robbob
(3,531 posts)Given how angry our side gets when Fox News and the Rethugs take a quote out of context and twist the meaning, we sure seem to have no problem piling on and doing the same. There is enough to hate and mock about tRump; why go around making things up? The quote as presented in the op literally cuts a sentence off halfway through to make it appear that tRump is referring to Vietnam as a swift victory and confusing it with operation desert storm. Look, he stumbles over the word swiftly, and then tries to ad-lib his way out of it, which ends up making him sound like a drunken wedding guest trying to be funny, and there is plenty there to laugh at, but calling Vietnam a swift victory? He didnt do that, and lying and twisting words around is supposed to be something the other side does.
malaise
(269,026 posts)This was all the proof you needed
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,863 posts)lame54
(35,292 posts)The longer vid shows him listing different wars and he clumsily moves from Vietnam to Iraq
The short vid is misleading
Nature Man
(869 posts)for attacking Pearl Harbor?