"I think I make up for it right now,” Trump said, describing a proposed defense budget that will approach $750 billion in 2020. “I think I am making up for it rapidly.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp
Hunter
"I think I make up for it right now,” Trump said, describing a proposed defense budget that will approach $750 billion in 2020. “I think I am making up for it rapidly.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
Well, that's mighty white of him...But I can sympathize somewhat with him since I was a draft-dodger just like him in the same era...We differed in that I enlisted to avoid the draft which I knew was coming for me sooner or later...His way was to enroll in college, and grow bone spurs...I suppose we each have our ways......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
His Biden didn't go ether.
I enlisted but was to late for Vietnam, I ended up in jail instead. Hell of a way to get out of serving.
This is your mind on drugs!
I won the lottery with a very high draft number and ended up becoming a fireman instead
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
Now THAT'S got to be a good story. I worked in our prison for many years and still miss it (not missing prison, but the wonderful staff I worked with). Maybe, just maybe, jail saved your life. I had several friends that did not come back from Vietnam alive. And, sadly, they were so young. Me - I was too young for Vietnam. But, I always knew I would someday serve in the military. Simply put, it's just what guys in our family were expected to do.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
That is some of the most twisted self-serving "logic" I have ever seen.
So now he increases military funding and thinks that makes his yellow bellied moves noble.“I thought it was a terrible war,” Trump told Piers Morgan on “Good Morning Britain” on Wednesday. “I thought it was very far away, and at that time nobody ever heard of the country. So many people dying, what is happening over there? So I was never a fan — like we’re fighting against Nazi Germany, we’re fighting against Hitler.”
Guess what trump----I can't remember that any of us were fans
Added in edit:
From this morning's briefing in the NYT:
Late-night comedy: The hosts skewered President Trump for saying he did not regret deferring his Vietnam War service because it was “far away.” “Yes, that is what is horrible about war — the commute,” Stephen Colbert said.
Yea---I wasn't big on the commute either---that's why I stayed over night
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 06-06-2019 at 08:10 AM.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
My eyes were so bad they sent me to Germany. However most of the group that was split to go to Vietnam or Germany wound up in Germany because Tricky Dick announced a 50,000 man withdrawal in Dec of 69. Sent many to serve in Germany instead of the war.
BTW i was never a fan of the War either.
Second point old Golden Boy doesn't understand is Congress made the Money available. Yet stupid wants to build a wall with it.
Fred
"Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've
stayed alive."
'Take care of yourself, and each other.'
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
That was a few hundred clicks east of where I was at Spangdahlem, but I drove through it once before turning south to Switzerland...That would have been in 1968 when I was a mature 21 year old and wise to the ways of the world...No furriner was going to outsmart me...
But somehow I got back to base broke anyway...Had a good time though......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
just fits
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
The Queen in WW2
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"