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Old 08-02-2016, 05:53 PM
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It's called politicizing a tragedy. Also gross insensitivity, something I wouldn't expect you to know the slightest thing about.
I lost count of how many combat tours my son did in the Middle East. And since he was Special Forces I had plenty of time to think about how I would feel if he got whacked.

I thought about who I would blame and be pissed off at and the list was pretty long. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell, shit there were dozens of Neo Con Iraq War architects in the Bush Administration that I would have been pissed at. I even fantasized about what I would do if Bush wanted to meet with me as a Gold Star Parent. I figured if he let me get close enough to shake hands with him, then he would be close enough for me to throw a haymaker and try to knock some of his teeth out.

Then there's the damned Democrats, including Clinton, that gave Bush political cover by voting for the war.

But one name that never came up on my hate list was Donald Trump.

Trump was that Dude on The Apprentice. A show I never watched because I thought it was inane, but it, and he, had nothing to do with the decision to invade Iraq.

So I gotta ask myself, why the Fuck is this Kahn Dude attacking Trump? What's his angle?
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Old 08-02-2016, 06:07 PM
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Much more of this and I'll start to think he really is trying to throw the election.

Like, is wrestling fixed?
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Old 08-02-2016, 06:18 PM
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I wouldn't say noone wants the medal, it's just that noone wants to get killed or maimed, except for a few psychos perhaps.

There's the old "Million Dollar Wound", that's the one that's bad enough to get you sent home permanently from the war, but not bad enough to leave you with any permanent damage. The problem is that there is a narrow window. Too much one way and you spent a couple of weeks in the hospital and then get sent back into combat. Too much the other way and you end up with missing body parts or worse.

When I was in Nam there was a policy where if you got three purple hearts you got sent home from the war. Of course that wasn't an issue for me as an REMF but I heard stories about guys in the bush that would wait till charlie lobbed in a few mortars and take out their P-38 (that's a GI can opener) and cut a gash on their arm or leg (or if they were squeamish, have their buddy do it) and claim they got nicked by shrapnel and get a "cheap heart" as it was called, for it. Three of those and you got a ticket home.

Even though I voted for Kerry I always found the fact that he managed to get three of these "cheap hearts" in a little over four months for a ticket out of the war, as a little suspicious.
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Old 08-02-2016, 06:22 PM
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Much more of this and I'll start to think he really is trying to throw the election.

Like, is wrestling fixed?
Like I said, I think it's still a remote possibility that hes a Clinton plant.

But if that's true, then think of the implications.

What does it say about the Clintons.?
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Old 08-02-2016, 06:33 PM
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Trump planning to fold does no necessarily mean he's a Clinton plant. It might be a weird Republican establishment plot to elect Kasich, or it might be lots of things.
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I lost count of how many combat tours my son did in the Middle East. And since he was Special Forces I had plenty of time to think about how I would feel if he got whacked.

I thought about who I would blame and be pissed off at and the list was pretty long. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell, shit there were dozens of Neo Con Iraq War architects in the Bush Administration that I would have been pissed at. I even fantasized about what I would do if Bush wanted to meet with me as a Gold Star Parent. I figured if he let me get close enough to shake hands with him, then he would be close enough for me to throw a haymaker and try to knock some of his teeth out.

Then there's the damned Democrats, including Clinton, that gave Bush political cover by voting for the war.

But one name that never came up on my hate list was Donald Trump.

Trump was that Dude on The Apprentice. A show I never watched because I thought it was inane, but it, and he, had nothing to do with the decision to invade Iraq.

So I gotta ask myself, why the Fuck is this Kahn Dude attacking Trump? What's his angle?
He can't help himself. Kahn criticized him, just like Megyn Kelly did. That's all it takes.
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Trump planning to fold does no necessarily mean he's a Clinton plant. It might be a weird Republican establishment plot to elect Kasich, or it might be lots of things.
The way this election year has been, I suppose anything is possible.
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He can't help himself. Kahn criticized him, just like Megyn Kelly did. That's all it takes.
Kahn viciously attacked him.

I don't blame Trump.

My question was, what's Kahn's agenda?
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Old 08-02-2016, 06:59 PM
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Mebbe keeping an incompetent narcissistic opportunistic asshole playing a xenophobe out of the WH?

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