Trumpy probably doesn`t want the papers to let people know how many troops are killed .
He is not a king. Congress can defund these activities. All of his departures from the norms of this country can be curtailed if the other equal branches of government do their job. So long as our Congress sees coddling this monster as in their best interest, we will have to deal with him. The story isn’t one elected official in the Executive branch, but many complicit elected officials in the other branches of government.
Remember the nostalgic debates of the 1960’s when we debated the danger of undeclared wars waged with the public’s full knowledge of who was fighting where? Now we are having undeclared wars waged out of the public eye. What’s next… the President wages personally directed secret drone strikes on competing hotels in foreign lands? Slippery slope indeed.
There have been some announcements, prior to this week…
“JUDY WOODRUFF: United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office. The Pentagon has authorized the deployment of 400 more troops, some of whom are already there. Five hundred special operations forces sent by the Obama administration are also on the ground. War planners reportedly are seeking to send an additional 1,000 American troops to Syria.”
I recall recently seeing an article detailing the authorization of 1,000 more troops to Syria and also reading an article about sending more forces to Iraq. The actual numbers on the ground have been growing, but seems to have gotten lost in the storm of controversies since Inauguration Day.
So secretive, so corrupt. This entire Admin needs to go . Keep up the pressure, keep investigations going!
Secret wars. This should be impeachable. A violation of the War Powers Act.
“If we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil, but, OK, maybe we’ll have another chance,”
– Unpresident Trump.
Not supposed to peek behind the curtain …
It will disclose to our ’ enemies ’ …
(or maybe let people know how many ’ innocents ’ are slaughtered)
Our so-called President told us on the campaign trail that he had a plan that would allow us to defeat ISIS in two weeks’ time.
Has that plan been disclosed? Has it been put into effect? Will we ever know?
This is unpossible. Jill Stein told me that Hillary was the real war-monger.
Just wait until ISIS releases a video of a captive American soldier being beheaded. That’ll be Trump’s sign to go all-in on the always-reliable “Anybody who criticizes me wants our brave troops dead and should be hung for treason.” Trumpers across the country will eat it up, just as Americans ate it up during the early phase of the Iraq clusterfuck.
Bush’s ratings were lousy up until 9/11, and after that he got the war he’d wanted ever since Saddam threatened his daddy. And that war led to his re-election, and four more years of clusterfuck.
I heard…that Jill just overheard…what Flynn heard …
over dinner one night –
Before the check cleared, even.
Fox & Friends had better let Trump know there’s (almost) no oil in Yemen, or else he’ll send our troops into that quagmire, too.
Change in policy at the Pentagon and throughout the administration: factual information will no longer be provided; questions will not be answered, at least not truthfully; documents will not be produced, unless determined helpful to the Trump team; other documents are subject to discretionary shredding; public records are no longer open to be viewed by the public; propaganda available daily. And remember - we are the most transparent administration ever.
So we are tag teaming with Russia who wants to keep Assad in power for a warm water port?
There is no comparison between W and Trump. There is no comparison to 9-11 and anything else.
Americans would not fall for that for one second. The majority of Americans doesn’t just dislike Trump, we hate him and think he’s totally unfit for the office by a very large margin.
People would turn on Trump if that happened.
It’s not like Trump knows how many troops are there either.
Remember. TRUMP DOESN’T READ more than 140 characters. If it’s not on Fox or the grocery store counter, he doesnt know about it.
REMEMBER THIS: Trump was a fan of the NAZIs. their Propaganda MInister Joseph Goebbels’ most quoted line is “ACCUSE OTHERS OF THAT WHICH YOU ARE GUILTY>”
So when he called Hillary an incompetent, Crooked, Liar, and War Monger, he was talking about HIMSELF…but trying to throw YOU off the track.
The Trumpeteers were hoodwinked up and down the electorate. Most weren’t smart enough to question him and virtually none of them watched MSNBC and read the NY Times because their right wing media said the MAINSTREAM MEDIA was CORRUPT.
They believe everything they’ve read in the BIble too…but they’re SLOW READERS and actually never made it to Jesus in the New Testament!
Thank God we avoided the War Hawk as president.