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IamFortunesFool

(348 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:34 PM Feb 2017

So apparently any loss of American military life

means we have to call the mission a success...even if it was an obvious failure. This is the logic Sean Spicer just used to justify the administration insisting that the raid in Yemen was a success...because a Navy Seal died, it was a success, and any body who says otherwise is degrading his legacy and sacrifice...that it is unpatriotic to question our military exploits and adventures. We are being told that we are not allowed to question the success of the mission because it was a success and the death of the Seal is evidence to how important and successful the operation was...that only the President knows the secrets we supposedly learned in this purported victory. This is so obviously propaganda that it makes me almost physically angry and disgusted...but the true believers will wave their flags and nod in agreement.

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Takket

(21,560 posts)
3. Bushco pulled this same stuff
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:39 PM
Feb 2017

Anyone who questioned the war was villified for "not supporting the troops".

madokie

(51,076 posts)
4. None of these losers
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:42 PM
Feb 2017

would have made it out of 'Nam, you can bet on that.

Everytime one of the mo'fo's open their mouth about anything War it just pisses me right the fuck off

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
5. Unless Clinton or Obama can be blamed, of course
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:44 PM
Feb 2017

If the GOP can blame either of them, then any military death means failure.

atreides1

(16,072 posts)
7. It was a clusterfuck
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 03:58 PM
Feb 2017

And the blood shed is not only on Drumpf's hands but he shares it with Mattis and Dunford! For those expecting more from the Marines in the room, guess again!!!||


The Navy Seals need to be very careful, it seems as if they've now become cannon fodder, for the Orange Shitgibbon, and old "Mad Dog" Mattis!!!

IamFortunesFool

(348 posts)
8. I'd like to think the military won't just blindly let
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 04:04 PM
Feb 2017

him lead them... But the military defying a president is tantamount to a coup, and I don't see that happening. I feel SOOO bad for our armed forces. They are in an impossible spot.

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