Originally published at: Trump White House Throws Military Under the Bus For Lawless Attack
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round It seemed inevitable that President Trump’s comments Sunday night disavowing the second Sept 2. strike, which killed two survivors of one of his lawless high seas attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats, would ultimately lead to him scapegoating the military. But things moved quicker yesterday on this…
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Maybe not so exciting for others but i grew up in the bay area and have just moved from Tucson where i lived for 27 years so this view out my bedroom window is quite exciting to me!
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Once again, pertinent info in someone’s book. Oh, wait, it’s in Hegseth’s book - published last year!
…rules of engagement
Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement.
The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he also repeatedly railed against the constraints placed on “American warfighters” by the laws of war and the Geneva conventions.
“After this briefing, I pulled my platoon together, huddling amid their confusion to tell them, ‘I will not allow that nonsense to filter into your brains. Men, if you see an enemy who you believe is a threat, you engage and destroy the threat. That’s a bullshit rule that’s going to get people killed. And I will have your back – just like our commander. We are coming home, the enemy will not.’”
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Beautiful. Welcome to winter.
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HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!
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There aren’t enough wheels on the bus.
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Has Hegseth bombed the SS Minnow yet? After all Gilligan and the Skipper seemed to be quite suspicious characters. Though you could be sure that the millionaire and his wife would get a pass.
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Wow, that Noem is really a class act, isn’t she? (rhetorical question)
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Mary Ann must be spared!
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I have a theory that what kills the child’s glee for snow is having to get to work in it for 30 years. Since i am retired, i really don’t need to go out at all and so i hope to retain my glee! (It’s a theory - I’ll let you know!)
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Why does it feel as though the US by electing this administration is trying to punish others by punching itself in the face repeatedly? “Oh, you don’t like when I do that? Well watch dis!” etc.
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Entitlement junkies? Has she been to retirement communities in Arizona and Florida? Rural Appalachia? Places where the population overwhelmingly benefit from a vast social safety net.
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Is this another new kitten? So charming and innocent!
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The Secretary for Hair Product is not as terminally stupid as is the Dotard, but he is every bit as much fucked in the head.
He is a pathetic, fake tough guy.
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- Firing competent service members because of their race, gender, and sexual orientation.
- Keeping members of the military away from their families over the holidays based on paranoid delusions about crime.
- Swerving into a government shutdown and musing about not paying service member salaries.
- Screaming that all orders are presumptively legal, drawing attention to the issuing of illegal orders.
- Throwing a flag officer under the bus to try to escape legal consequences for pointless murder.
- Pining for a war of occupation largely influenced by reactionary Venezuelan emigres doling out bribes and whispering nonsensical lies into Trump’s demented ears at Mar-a-Lago.
MAGA is playing chicken with catastrophe. If the worst outcome does happen they’ll blame everyone but themselves.
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Shouldn’t he be falling on his sword like the incredibly tough and macho WARRIOR he is?
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This article nails our Minister of War Crimes mentality pretty well.
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And we know which part of Ginger CF-DJT has his eyes on.
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