I like people who weren't captured

Name-calling is cool and all but He's been in office for three decades. Is that bad?

McCain criticized Trump, so Trump being thin skinned goes low and lashes out at McCain and insults McCain, all POWs and an entire nation

and now Trump has to pay the piper for his grotesque remarks because what does McCain do? He initiates an FBI investigation on a fake dossier that has now ballooned out of control into full blown congressional and special counsel investigations

betraying his hopes and ambitions for his vindictive meddling, McCain adds fuel to the fire, by comparing this situation to Watergate, wherein a president is forced to resign. feigning innocence, he then tries to/had to walk back the remarks later in the day by comparing it to other investigations where presidents didn't have to resign, and no-one calls him out for his transparent hypocrisy, the media just gobbles it up

this thing is though the looking glass and has gone around the bend - all of our politicians are acting like children - as if our government officials weren't already mired in personal rancor, counter-productivity and incompetence before this shite started

and Democrats are just wallowing in the muck, they are certainly enjoying this moment while millions are being spent and wasted on an investigation with no crime (other than a murdered informant that no one gives a shite about), the government is near stalemate and the citizens are reeling from the internecine body blows being delivered to the union

all the while being cheered on by a woman, who has been scorned by an entire nation

"resist", what a patriot

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Trump loves dead soldiers and Mari[n]e's, folks. Lots of em (per whiskey papa)

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Not yet.

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When we fight ISIS they win. Every time. Our regular grunt troops are just not good for that task.

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Americans have weak constitutions. This is the biggest issue we have when fighting anyone, not just ISIS.

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Bush 43 created ISIS.

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Still peddling this bullshite? Clinton and Obama had as much to do with the creation of ISIS as W, and I'd argue (and win) that they are more responsible.

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McCain is totally sold out to the Military

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He's been in office for three decades. Is that bad?

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It's pretty much exhibit A of what is wrong with the nation, so yeah that's fricking bad.

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Bush 43 created ISIS.

Still peddling this bullshite?

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How Disbanding the Iraqi Army Fueled ISIS

Mark Thompson

May 28, 2015

After nearly a year of air strikes led by the U.S. and ground attacks by the U.S.-trained Iraqi army, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is proving to be a far more cagey and cunning foe than the Pentagon ever expected. A big reason for its success is the George W. Bush Administration’s decision to disband the Iraqi army shortly after the 2003 invasion—without the knowledge or consent of either the Pentagon or President.

It’s a jarring reminder of how a key decision made long ago is complicating U.S. efforts to fight ISIS and restore some semblance of stability to Iraq. Instead of giving Iraq a fresh start with a new army, it helped create a vacuum that ISIS has filled. Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine general and chief of U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000, said keeping the Iraqi army intact was always part of U.S. strategy. “The plan was that the army would be the foundation of rebuilding the Iraqi military,” he says. “Many of the Sunnis who were chased out ended up on the other side and are probably ISIS fighters and leaders now.” One expert estimates that more than 25 of ISIS’s top 40 leaders once served in the Iraqi military.
General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, says the U.S. could have weeded Saddam Hussein’s loyalists from the Iraqi army while keeping its structure, and the bulk of its forces, in place. “We could have done a lot better job of sorting through that and keeping the Iraqi army together,” he told TIME on Thursday. “We struggled for years to try to put it back together again...So how did the Iraqi army come to dissolve? The Bush Administration tapped Paul Bremer to head the so-called Coalition Provisional Authority on May 11, 2003. Twelve days later, he issued an order wiping away the Iraqi military, with a pledge to build a new one from scratch, untainted by any ties to Saddam's regime. The army’s end quickly led to civil unrest, a growing insurgency and a U.S. occupation that would last eight years and cost the lives of 4,491 American troops.”

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"The Bush Administration tapped Paul Bremer to head the so-called Coalition Provisional Authority on May 11, 2003. Twelve days later, he issued an order wiping away the Iraqi military, with a pledge to build a new one from scratch, untainted by any ties to Saddam's regime. The army’s end quickly led to civil unrest, a growing insurgency and a U.S. occupation that would last eight years and cost the lives of 4,491 American troops.”

Bush Gives Medal of Freedom to 'Pivotal' Iraq Figures

"President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tommy Franks, the now-retired Army general who led the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; former CIA director George Tenet, who told Bush it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction; and L. Paul Bremer, who presided over the first 14 months of Iraq reconstruction."

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Presidential Medals of Failure

By Richard Cohen
Thursday, December 16, 2004; Page A37

Where's Kerik?

This is the question I asked myself as, one by one, the pictures of the latest Presidential Medal of Freedom awardees flashed by on my computer screen. First came George Tenet, the former CIA director and the man who had assured President Bush that it was a "slam-dunk" that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Then came L. Paul Bremer, the former viceroy of Iraq, who disbanded the Iraqi army and ousted Baathists from government jobs, therefore contributing mightily to the current chaos in that country. Finally came retired Gen. Tommy Franks, the architect of the plan whereby the United States sent too few troops to Iraq."

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Those guys should have gotten medals from Israel, not us.

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It's pretty much exhibit A of what is wrong with the nation, so yeah that's fricking bad.

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McCain was involved in the loss of FIVE US Navy aircraft. That is kinda like his record of service in the Senate. He should have disappeared after the savings and loan debacle.

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1989 AT 4 A.M. BY TOM FITZPATRICK


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You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker.


Obviously, Keating thought you could make it to the White House, too.
He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.

Nothing was too good for you. Why not? Keating saw you as a prime investment that would pay off in the future.


So he flew you and your family around the country in his private jets. Time after time, he put you up for serene, private vacations at his vast, palatial spa in the Bahamas. All of this was so grand. You were protected from what Thomas Hardy refers to as "the madding crowd." It was almost as though you were already staying at a presidential retreat."

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How soon we forget, huh?

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Nice. Very classy. As opposed to the physical limitations you have as a result of years of sacrifice and patriotism.

Yeah, you've posted this garbage before.

None of that changes anything I said. None of it absolves Clinton or Obama of anything.