This. 1,000 X this.
too much information
Much like Colin Powell before him, Kelly perceives himself as being the good soldier. These mercenary bastards forget that their ultimate loyalty must lie with the country and the Constitution, NOT the PresidentâŠ
Thatâs our very own Pat Bagley from The Salt Lake Tribune. So proud. Thanks for sharing.
This is wildly OT but I just had to share because I laughed so:
Absolutely! The words that would have been poignant to a soldier wouldnât necessarily (and obviously didnât, in this case) come across that way to a young, pregnant widow with two small children. Both Kelly and Trump were tone deaf in this matter, and neither of them is man enough to admit that and move forward.
Kelly is a disgrace.
Relevant:
Guess you donât understand why it hurts.
The least Trump could have done was have enough smarts to make sure he wa not reaching the family as they went to pick up the body and the grace to at least use the manâs name.
EDTA: Whatis your explanation for Trumpâs denial that he said what Kelly told him to say?
HaâŠI will never forget my days as a nurseâs aid on an Alzheimerâs unit while in college. C-diffâŠwowâŠâit has itâs own smellâ is what youâre told in training, and then you happily go on your merry way to do the feedings, changing diapers, giving showers, and all that jazz until one dayâŠone dayâŠyour life is changed forever. It will challenge even those who think they have a tough stomach and iron resistance to the gag reflex.
This is a FB post by someone named Bob Lamb. I have no idea who he is or whether itâs factual. See what you think:
While everyone is so busy talking about Trumpâs handling of his call to the widow of the soldier killed in Niger, youâre all missing the important part of that story â the part about what happened that night in Niger.
The story that is emerging is so much worse than anything that happened in Benghazi, but the same GOP Congress that investigated Benghazi with a fury seems to have little or no interest in this story.
Hereâs what we know so far:
These soldiers went to a meeting in an area near the border with Mali. This is a well known hot spot for ISIS activity.
Our soldiers were not backed up by US Military air support. No, they were backed up by the French, who were not authorized to intervene or even fire a shot.
Our soldiers did not have armored vehicles. They traveled in pickup trucks.
Our soldiers were given faulty intel that said âit was unlikely that they would meet any hostile forces.â Of course, they walked into an ISIS ambush. It was chaotic and they took three casualties.
It took the French 30 minutes to arrive. When they did, they were not authorized to help. So, a dozen of our Green Berets fought a battle with more than 50 ISIS fighters, without help, for 30 minutes.
Finally, a rescue helicopter arrived, but it was not a US military helicopter. No, we apparently outsourced that job to âprivate contractors.â So, these contractors landed and loaded the remaining troops, the injured and the dead.
Hereâs where this gets really bad âŠ
Because they were not military, they never did a head count. That is how Sgt. La David Johnson was left behind.
Thatâs right ⊠they left him behind.
According to the Pentagon, his locator beacon was activated on the battlefield, which indicates that he was alive when they left him there.
They recovered his body 48 hours later, but are refusing to say where. According to his widow, she was told that she could not have an open casket funeral. This indicates that he was mutilated after being left behind on the battlefield.
This is what led to the nonsense weâre obsessing over. This is the real story. As usual, youâre allowing it to be about Trumpâs distraction, but this is Benghazi on steroids.
The Trump Pentagon gave these men bad intel, no support, outsourced rescue people and then tried for more than a week to pretend it never happened.
In that time, Trump spoke on many occasions and never mentioned it. He tweeted attacks on many but never mentioned these men.
Only after pressure from the media has he bothered to even acknowledge these men and their service
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#Niger #Benghazi #Outrage #Veterans #DonaldTrump #Pentagon
O my god. I got goose flesh over when I read that. O. My. God.
It sounds like a total clusterfuck. Total.
The dark side. I was trying to pin down why Kellyâs emotional words actually seemed somewhat menacing to me. This puts into words exactly what I couldnât quite put my finger on. There is a dark side to him, and to his use of the word âhonorâ.
That would explain so very very much.
"ânext to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrimsâ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawnâs early my
country âtis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?â
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water"
-cummings
Not going to believe or spread rumors until thereâs a reliable cite. Really. This had better NOT be true. It reads like conjecture to me.
Hereâs the problem John, Trump lied about the very words you advised him to give. Maybe he wasnât great a delivering your message and that is understandable.
His words were grass and offensive to a grieving widow, family and friends. I was under the impression that it was the service soldier in the widow and family that had the phone and that it was he who set the phone to on speaker Do not blame the Congress woman for speaking out, weâre glad she did. Why did it take Trump two weeks to call the widow? And why wouldnât he deliver the written message that was created for him right after the deaths of the soldiers?
The Congress women was not ease-dropping on the conversation between the President and Laâdavidâs widow. And why did has per party affiliation mentioned? Again here we go with the Republicans thinking they have a corner on our troops, religion and democracy. What a crap shoot.
With all do respect sir, we want to know what happened to our soldiers and weâre tired of people, like yourself taking the fall for this incompetent president. He canât even deliver a message to a fallen soldiers widow in a timely manner or in a respectful way and then he lies. If there is anyone who needs a lecture on etiquette and our troops itâs YHOUR president. We have lost our patience with Presidents sending our children to fight wars that they themselves lie to avoid, either by entitlement or some half baked physical problem. So tread lightly sir when addressing the mothers and daughters of such. We do not take kindly to being slammed for speaking our minds. We wonât shut-up and we wonât sit-down, we will speak-up just like the Congress WOMEN did.
Thank you for your service and my condolences to you for the loss of your son.
We will ask questions and we will shout it from the mountain tops, because we love our troops and want to know why theyâve died? It just not matter of knowing what theyâre getting into when they join to serve our country and put their loves on the line. We expect our President and those who ask them to do their jobs, that it was for a good cause and in a safe manner. Their lives are very precious and they are not to taken for granted.
I think we have to go back to a draft. I was disturbed the chief of staff would only take questions from those in the room who knew a gold star family. Many people have experienced deep loss. In fact we all lose we love. Parents losing children, wives losing husbands, husbands losing wives, brothers and sisters losing brothers and sisters and children losing parents.
Our military feels forgotten and alone and they feel this for good reason. But I will not give up my right to an opinion about what is going on in my own country because I have not served. As far as his remembrance of what used to be sacred, look down the hallway to the man you serve. He has earned every bit of skepticism he now faces.
The right thing to do, the honorable way forward is to apologize to the family. They are the ones who decide if the call was insensitive and/or disrespectful. Not Gen. Kelly. Not trump.
Today General Kelly lost all his Stars and Stripes to become another trump sycophant. He himself shows no respect for Sgt La David Johnsonâs family. Everything trump touches dies. General Kelly is the latest casualty.
Why the hell did he even call her when she was enroute for the arrival of her husbandâs body? Someone should have called ahead on timing first. Second, of course it is on speaker in the car with everyone there. Third, if the congresswoman had not said anything, would we have known about Trumpâs meandering incapability of making an empathetic presidential call? And fourth, Trump screwed this whole thing up from the start at the Rose Garden because of his big mouth and trying to hide what happened in Niger and thanks to McCain for demanding Trump reveal what happenedâŠAnd the last punch in the gut to the family is first saying they lied and today, Kelly confirms that the Moron said itâtrue to his sorry, lying nature. This whole debacle has made one thing clear to meâthe people who sacrifice for our country are truly heroes.
OMG Obama is on fire! get to cspan now incredible!!!
I donât know what to make of Kelly. I think whoever said he fell on the grenade for Trump is close to the truth. I also wonder if he has changed, like people said about Gen. Flynn: ânot the man I used to knowâ. This may be because of the massive black hole gravity around Trump that warps everyone who comes close. Or makes âdignity wraithsâ of everyone like Josh says. I wonder too about the underlying racism in Kelly. I lived for a number of years in the very square in Boston where he grew up. I knew many Irish and Irish/Americans who were essentially racists. How is this playing into Kellyâs willingness to counter attack against the congress woman?