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| Duckworth slams Trump: I won't be lectured on military needs by a 'five-deferment draft dodger' |
| 2018-01-21 |
| [The Hill] Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) tore into President Trump on the Senate floor Saturday, calling him a "five-deferment draft dodger" and slamming him for his comments toward North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Does he even know that there are service members who are in harm’s way right now, watching him, looking for their commander in chief to show leadership, rather than [trying] to deflect blame?" Duckworth said. "Or that his own Pentagon says that the short-term funding plans he seems intent on pushing is actually harmful to not just the military, but to our national security?" "I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible," she continued. "Sadly, this is something that the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do ‐ and I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger." "And I have a message for cadet bone spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops, and millions of innocent civilians, in danger." Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, lost both of her legs when a rocket-propelled grenade shot down the helicopter she was piloting over Iraq in 2004. She is therefore above reproach. Like John McCain. Duckworth’s comments come after the federal government shut down Friday at midnight after the Senate failed to pass a short-term funding bill. Trump has cast blame on the Democrats for the shutdown, tweeting Saturday that they decided to "play shutdown politics." The White House has also blasted Democrats, accusing them of putting "unlawful immigrants" ahead of the military and other funding needs. "We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "When Democrats start paying our armed forces and first responders, we will reopen negotiations on immigration reform." Democrats have countered that Trump’s demands on an immigration compromise led to the shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he thought he had come to a deal with Trump on Friday by offering funding for Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall, but the president ultimately walked away from that deal. "Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O," Schumer said Saturday. "It’s next to impossible. As soon as you take one step forward, the hard-right forces the president three steps back." |
| Posted by:Anomalous Sources |
| #24 Whatever happened to a standing army guarding one's border? Perhaps you missed the last eight years? If Obama had (he did) a standing army, it was guarding us |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-21 18:06 |
| #23 I would rather see our troops on the US-Mexican border than overseas, e.g., Afghanistan (aka sh!t hole). Whatever happened to a standing army guarding one's border? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-01-21 16:58 |
| #22 Don't confuse service and a Purple Heart with competence. There's a senator in AZ on the other side of the aisle with the same "Trump Derangement Syndrome" disease. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2018-01-21 16:33 |
| #21 Trump is still to blame. His draconian gov't cutbacks have stymied medical research that could have enabled her to grow new legs. Little wonder she is angry and feels shat upon. She is crabby. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-01-21 16:24 |
| #20 "And if God isn't COMPLETELY evil, he might not." You may find, through evidence, HE casts a favorable light on This Nation. People like you for one understand the Heart of the Law, and the Nation is more like a young Child that hung out with the wrong crowd. This is GODS Greatest Tool in the World today. And democrats need to be circumcised from the Congregation when they appoint themselves as stewards of it's downfall. They act as Judge and Jury in all affairs, They now need to be Judged. Our Military is in crappy shape overall. It seems to be the only place in this Leviathan they want to cut. If you do not pay My Troops, there will be hell to pay. I will tell you That. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-21 15:45 |
| #19 If Trump had been president at the time he wouldn't have sent Duckworth to Iraq on the fool's errand that resulted in the lost of her legs. Posted by Abu Uluque Trump is still to blame. His draconian gov't cutbacks have stymied medical research that could have enabled her to grow new legs. Little wonder she is angry and feels shat upon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-21 15:25 |
| #18 If Trump had been president at the time he wouldn't have sent Duckworth to Iraq on the fool's errand that resulted in the lost of her legs. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-01-21 14:36 |
| #17 Snowy, if you are conservative, you are already in the desert. The beauty about being in the desert is like being James Bond 007. Be always prepared for the worst with a mission to survive and in my case watch the liberals perish time and again in the consequences of their stupidity. After a while you are enjoying it as a sport. There are times where a decisive opportunity to strike a fatal blow to a leftist position yourself sort of out of the blue offers itself as an opportunity, then in classic style you strike, then you sit back and watch them crash burn and try to pick up the pieces while not knowing what just sledge hammered them. Conservative life on planet earth is an artform. |
| Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363 2018-01-21 13:47 |
| #16 I thought Carter (D) forgave the draft dodgers... rj: I don't recognize Carter as a divinity, sorry... The left has spent fifty years telling us how moral and wonderful and right the draft dodgers were but suddenly hit us with this? We can sell out 95% of East Asia to the Russian mob and then surrender our industrial capability to what they've remade in their image but we're supposed to be concerned that they spent $ 100,000.00 on online ads on facebook? Beoserker: if I could figure out some way to make ends meet doing it I'd go out into the desert to subsist on locusts and wild honey, but I'm afraid all the suitable desert locations for that sort of thing (and a lot of the unsuitable ones) have been turned into golf courses. I really don't know what to do any more. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-01-21 12:29 |
| #15 Surprised she didn't break out in Fortunate Son. Now, takes a look at her wiki bio: University of Hawaii, Political Science, 1989 Shot down in 2004, presumably not a Lieutenant Colonel at the time as a co-pilot of a Blackhawk. Ran for office, lost, 2006, then, *cough*, appointed by Blagojevich Illinois Department of Veteran Affairs. Sketchy tenure. 2009, job with federal Department of Veteran Affairs. Some cush committees considering her lack of experience. Oh, already have this one-liner entered. So she was groomed to politics to begin with. Her injuries secured her position. Fast-tracked to the US Senate. Oh, and has a history of leaning on her creds: female military minority with combat wounds. Record sucks. Piss off. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-01-21 11:36 |
| #14 I don't care if the commander in chief has served or not. I care if he gives the troops what they need to do the job then gets the hell out of the way. Donald is doing just that. And rattling Short Round's cage is a good thing. Being nice has only gotten us a nuclear armed Nork. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-01-21 11:27 |
| #13 I thought Carter (D) forgave the draft dodgers... I have no idea if Trump draft dodged or had legitimate bone spurs but it seems more than a little unfair to badmouth someone who couldn't serve because of a medical condition. Imagine Duckworth slamming FDR because he never joined up? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-01-21 11:21 |
| #12 We've become the most incompetent slavetraders on the face of the planet, talking about how we aren't racists like them every step of the way and turning over our industrial base to the competent slaveholders. Visit your nearest Walmart or Target store for proof. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-21 11:21 |
| #11 Meanwhile they consider Bill "Loathe the Military" Clinton a saint. But it's nice to know Duckworth's masters have trained her to bark on command. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-01-21 10:16 |
| #10 Now that is a righteous rant. You tell ‘em, Snowy Thing! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-01-21 09:56 |
| #9 It's too damn late by about forty years to talk about the Nation's honor. WE have about as much as a slavetrading Leonardo-de-Caprio character in a Quentin Tarantino film running the auction block with our cockholster-in-training cigar in our mouths. We've become the most incompetent slavetraders on the face of the planet, talking about how we aren't racists like them every step of the way and turning over our industrial base to the competent slaveholders. We can feebly pray for God to have mercy on our souls, but Darwin won't. And if God isn't COMPLETELY evil, he might not. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-01-21 09:31 |
| #8 It may be politically incorrect to actually study history, but consider this: John Bell Hood killed an awfully large number of the troops he commanded after he was kept in command after his numerous injuries. Also, why was it so goddamn motherfucking important for Trump to go die in Vietnam if y'all were going to let all the South Vietnamese die from drowning while trying to get away after selling them out? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-01-21 09:29 |
| #7 Did she ever say something about the Obama administration handing over the Office of Personell Management's database root password to the Red Chinese? That was when we decided to lose the NEXT war, and the war after that, and the war after that... and get to enjoy lots of American kids getting their limbs blown off. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-01-21 09:24 |
| #6 You and yours sisters never had to dodge the draft. White Female Privilege. You talk about choice. Men never have had a 'choice'. Sadly, this is something that the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do Oh, he does. He practices the old Roman adage Si vis pacem, para bellum He makes sure his communications with our enemies is understood and not some wishy washy diplo talk that can easily be misinterpreted. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-21 07:36 |
| #5 p.s. He's just repeating that Mattis told him, colonel. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-21 03:47 |
| #4 I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger She ever said something similar about Obama? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-21 03:43 |
| #3 I do not believe Duckworth was drafted into the US Armed Forces but voluntarily applied. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-01-21 03:27 |
| #2 Insert Tammy Duckworth not worth a quack joke. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-01-21 03:17 |
| #1 Because Chicago politicians are so patriotic and all-knowing. She'd do well to end the VFW bar stool virtue signaling and see what can be done about a bankrupt Illinois. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-21 03:15 |