Typical lefty.
Trump MIGHT be accusing a few corrupt US soldiers of stealing, and the Lefties spin it as Trump goes after "Soldiers".
Liberals: All the intellectual honesty of a Crack Whore.
Trump goes after soldiers
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Typical lefty.
Trump MIGHT be accusing a few corrupt US soldiers of stealing, and the Lefties spin it as Trump goes after "Soldiers".
Liberals: All the intellectual honesty of a Crack Whore.
bendog
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100 plus Correll, but that's hardly the point; rather, wtf would Trump even bring it UP? Even if he's just making his daily anti-mulsim in general racist rant, why even touch on bringing in the US military and even mention the stolen money. It's long gone.
Imo his insinuations about Obama and overall racial divisiveness from last week have pretty much poisoned the well for him here, and his only real hope is tacking back to middle as a sort of deal maker who can get the NRA on board with putting people on the no fly list on the no buy guns list. Supposedly, his campaign is giving him talking points and a prepared text. The way this is supposed to work is that media gets told what the candidate's going to stress today (or this week), and then the media's job is easy as it reports a well received speech
did a google...
Trump is an internet fanatic, gets all of his info from the net....
he WAS talking about US SOLDIERS....and he may be right....he just doesn't go in to detail, nor truly separate the bad guys from the good guys and lumps them together like with all groups or classes or ethnicity or race that have SOME bad apples, he seems to vilify the entire group instead of the bad guys individually.
this is afghanistan, but it might be what he is inferring???
U.S. Troops Have Stolen Millions in Iraq and Afghanistan
U.S. Army Specialist Stephanie Charboneau sat at the center of a complex trucking network in Forward Operating Base Fenty near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that distributed daily tens of thousands of gallons of what troops called “liquid gold”: the refined petroleum that fueled the international coalition’s vehicles, planes, and generators.
A prominent sign in the base read: “The Army Won’t Go If The Fuel Don’t Flow.” But Charboneau, 31, a mother of two from Washington state, felt alienated after a supervisor’s harsh rebuke. Her work was a dreary routine of recording fuel deliveries in a computer and escorting trucks past a gate. But it was soon to take a dark turn into high-value crime.
Troops were selling the U.S. military’s fuel to Afghan locals on the side, and pocketing the proceeds.
She began an affair with a civilian, Jonathan Hightower, who worked for a Pentagon contractor that distributed fuel from Fenty, and one day in March 2010 he told her about “this thing going on” at other U.S. military bases around Afghanistan, she recalled in a recent telephone interview.
Troops were selling the U.S. military’s fuel to Afghan locals on the side, and pocketing the proceeds. When Hightower suggested they start doing the same, Charboneau said, she agreed.
In so doing, Charboneau contributed to thefts by U.S. military personnel of at least $15 million worth of fuel since the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. And eventually she became one of at least 115 enlisted personnel and military officers convicted since 2005 of committing theft, bribery, and contract-rigging crimes valued at $52 million during their deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a comprehensive tally of court records by the Center for Public Integrity.
Trump is an internet fanatic, gets all of his info from the net....
he WAS talking about US SOLDIERS....and he may be right....he just doesn't go in to detail, nor truly separate the bad guys from the good guys and lumps them together like with all groups or classes or ethnicity or race that have SOME bad apples, he seems to vilify the entire group instead of the bad guys individually.
this is afghanistan, but it might be what he is inferring???
U.S. Troops Have Stolen Millions in Iraq and Afghanistan
U.S. Army Specialist Stephanie Charboneau sat at the center of a complex trucking network in Forward Operating Base Fenty near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that distributed daily tens of thousands of gallons of what troops called “liquid gold”: the refined petroleum that fueled the international coalition’s vehicles, planes, and generators.
A prominent sign in the base read: “The Army Won’t Go If The Fuel Don’t Flow.” But Charboneau, 31, a mother of two from Washington state, felt alienated after a supervisor’s harsh rebuke. Her work was a dreary routine of recording fuel deliveries in a computer and escorting trucks past a gate. But it was soon to take a dark turn into high-value crime.
Troops were selling the U.S. military’s fuel to Afghan locals on the side, and pocketing the proceeds.
She began an affair with a civilian, Jonathan Hightower, who worked for a Pentagon contractor that distributed fuel from Fenty, and one day in March 2010 he told her about “this thing going on” at other U.S. military bases around Afghanistan, she recalled in a recent telephone interview.
Troops were selling the U.S. military’s fuel to Afghan locals on the side, and pocketing the proceeds. When Hightower suggested they start doing the same, Charboneau said, she agreed.
In so doing, Charboneau contributed to thefts by U.S. military personnel of at least $15 million worth of fuel since the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. And eventually she became one of at least 115 enlisted personnel and military officers convicted since 2005 of committing theft, bribery, and contract-rigging crimes valued at $52 million during their deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a comprehensive tally of court records by the Center for Public Integrity.
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Fiero425
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Trump's the king of "walking back" BS; esp. when the world lands on his arse! The man just doesn't think before he speaks! Even if something's true, it doesn't mean it needs to be spewed for all to hear! This man needs psychological help and his family should think about a commitment after this is all over! He's gonna end up losing more than he gained by this hubris of running for President! 
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In his Greensboro speech, Trump goes on and on about all the money we have spent in the Middle East, implying it was wasted. And then he says if he is elected, he will take the oil from ISIS. He has said in the past he will invade Iraq.
In this speech, he apparently still feels that way. He is preluding his invasion in his speech. He mocks Iraq. He mocks Iraq's sovereignty. As he mocks Iraq, he says, "America First!" to cheers from the crowd.
It's weird. He whines about the money spent invading the Middle East, but he is planning on doing the same thing! And just like Bush, he claims he will pay for it with oil profits! He sounds just like Cindy Sheehan with calls for impeaching Bush. He claims in his Greensboro speech that he said before the invasion (he actually didn't) that we would be sucked into a quagmire, and then he gloats that the invasion led to the rise of ISIS. He didn't actually say that shit until long after the war had started and its unpopularity had made it safe for weaseling flip flopping demagogues to change their tune and come out against the war.
But here's the thing.
Iraq is right now kicking ISIS's ass. Instead of mocking them, we should be supporting them any way we can.
In this speech, he apparently still feels that way. He is preluding his invasion in his speech. He mocks Iraq. He mocks Iraq's sovereignty. As he mocks Iraq, he says, "America First!" to cheers from the crowd.
It's weird. He whines about the money spent invading the Middle East, but he is planning on doing the same thing! And just like Bush, he claims he will pay for it with oil profits! He sounds just like Cindy Sheehan with calls for impeaching Bush. He claims in his Greensboro speech that he said before the invasion (he actually didn't) that we would be sucked into a quagmire, and then he gloats that the invasion led to the rise of ISIS. He didn't actually say that shit until long after the war had started and its unpopularity had made it safe for weaseling flip flopping demagogues to change their tune and come out against the war.
But here's the thing.
Iraq is right now kicking ISIS's ass. Instead of mocking them, we should be supporting them any way we can.
Referring to a group, such as "Soldiers", without qualification, implies at the very least that, as a group, the majority of the group is being referred to.
Trump, on the other hand, was clearly referring to "Soldiers" who were specifically entrusted with money transfers.
1. I don't know why he mentioned it. I suspect this will be dropped quickly.
2. Re: Racism.
bendog
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Bingo. I'm not so sure that Iraq's military is doing all that well, but yeah Isis is losing.
There's a damn good reason we don't want to give Iraq anymore military hardware (they lose it), but whether or not it would be a good idea, I would think both campaigns would be saying something about "we could step up our support to led more US artillery support without inevitably getting back into a qwagmire and help our muslim (and Persian btw) allies. We did at one time have the BEST, MOST STUPENDOUS, HUGELY SUCCSSFUL WINNINGIST artillery.
I have no idea what Trump is doing, but then no one in the gop does either, and the dems appear content to let him continue doing whatever the fock he's doing.
He is obviously talking about the specific soldiers who had that job.
YOu made no such qualifications.
That is one of the many ways you lefties lie.
bendog
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who cares. DO NOT go after GI's period. JFC Correll, you'd embarrass the Catholic Church.
I do see how it works.
Turmp goes after a few specific soldiers and the left spins it to "Trump goes after soldiers".
Just like you lefties lied about him calling "All" mexicans rapists.
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