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Title: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on January 22, 2018, 08:20:20 pm

from The Washington Post....

Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs in Iraq,
calls Trump ‘a five-deferment draft dodger’


The Democrat also accused Trump of baiting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un into war.

By AMY B. WANG | 4:55PM EST — Sunday, January 21, 2018

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Iraq war veteran Senator Tammy Duckworth (Democrat-Ilinois.) said she will not be lectured by President Trump, calling him
a “five-deferment draft dodger” on January 20th. — Photograph: Reuters.


IN A Senate-floor speech Saturday, Senator Tammy Duckworth (Democrat-Illinois.) blasted President Trump as a “five-deferment draft dodger” and accused him of trying to bait North Korea into a war, putting both the military and the national security of the United States at risk.

It was a moment of fire for Duckworth, a veteran who lost both of her legs in 2004 while serving in the Iraq War, and who has advocated for military and disability issues since she was elected to national public office in 2012.

Duckworth said Saturday her speech was prompted by a tweet Trump had posted Saturday morning accusing Democrats of “holding our Military hostage” to have “unchecked illegal immigration.” The tweet was just one of many partisan attacks Trump launched (https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-launches-new-round-of-partisan-attacks-as-government-shutdown-hits-day-2/2018/01/21/0560aece-fe35-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html) over the weekend trying to blame Democrats for a congressional budget stalemate that had led to a shutdown of the federal government.

That Trump would accuse Democrats — like herself — of not caring about the military was galling, Duckworth said.


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“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 to try 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?”

The junior senator from Illinois said Trump's attempts to pin the shutdown on Democrats, especially by using the military, were examples of the president failing to take responsibility.

“I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible,” Duckworth continued. “Sadly, this is something 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.”

Duckworth saved her zinger for the end, a dig at the medical reason Trump has claimed was why he was able to avoid military service (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html) for the fifth time.

“And I have a message for ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’,” Duckworth said. “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.”

Since Trump took office, he and Kim have repeatedly exchanged threats — and outright insults, at times — about each other's nuclear arsenal. Trump has called Kim “Little Rocket Man” (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914497877543735296) and a “madman” (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/911175246853664768). In return, Kim has called Trump a “deranged U.S. dotard” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/21/a-short-history-of-the-word-dotard-which-north-korea-called-trump) and, most recently (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/16/north-korea-calls-trump-a-lunatic-and-a-loser-in-response-to-nuclear-button-tweet), a “lunatic” and a “loser”.

But the escalating rhetoric has also led many lawmakers and civilians to worry about the possibility of a war with North Korea. Last August, Trump issued an ultimatum to Pyongyang, saying North Korea would “face fire and fury like the world has never seen” if the country did not curb its threats to the United States. (The “fire and fury” phrase would later become the title of much-talked about book by author Michael Wolff (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-slams-bannon-when-he-was-fired-he-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind/2018/01/03/21fb158a-f0aa-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html) allegedly exposing the inner workings of Trump's White House.)

In all, North Korea launched 18 missile tests last year, and its continued defiance prompted the U.N. Security Council to impose strict sanctions on the country in December. Undeterred, North Korea said it would simply bolster its nuclear force and declared the U.N. sanctions “an act of war” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/24/north-korea-declares-latest-u-n-sanctions-an-act-of-war).

On New Year's Day, Kim bragged that he could attack the United States at any time using a nuclear button on his desk (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-leader-says-he-hasnuclear-button-but-wont-use-unless-threatened/2017/12/31/af3dc188-ee96-11e7-90ed-77167c6861f2_story.html), but promised not to do so unless North Korea was threatened. In return, Trump tweeted that his “Nuclear Button” was “much bigger & more powerful” than Kim's.


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Perhaps nowhere have these heightened tensions played out more clearly than in Hawaii, where late last year state emergency officials reinstated its Cold War-era nuclear warning sirens amid growing fears of an attack by North Korea (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/27/hawaii-brings-back-cold-war-era-nuclear-warning-sirens-amid-fears-of-north-korea-strike). Those fears spilled over last weekend when a state employee accidentally sent an alert to scores of Hawaii residents and tourists on their cellphones warning of a “ballistic missile threat inbound” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/14/hawaii-missile-alert-how-one-employee-pushed-the-wrong-button-and-caused-a-wave-of-panic).

The false warning sparked a wave of panic (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/is-this-the-end-of-my-life-false-alert-of-missile-attack-sends-hawaii-scrambling/2018/01/13/78c86054-f8a0-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html) as thousands of people, many assuming they had only minutes to live, scrambled to seek shelter and say their final goodbyes to loved ones. The situation was exacerbated by a 38-minute gap between the initial alert and a subsequent wireless alert stating the missile warning was a mistake.

Though the false alarm was determined to be the result of human error, several lawmakers used the incident to highlight the situation with North Korea — and the consequences American citizens would face if not resolved. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (Democrat-Hawaii) criticized Trump for not taking the threat of nuclear war seriously enough and urged him (https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/952289564147769346) to engage North Korean leaders in serious negotiations to denuclearize.


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Two days after the false alarm, fresh off a visit to South Korea and Japan, Duckworth also tweeted a warning against war, saying one in the Korean Peninsula would be “catastrophic”.

Duckworth's Senate floor speech came nearly a year to the day after she spoke to a fired-up crowd at the Women's March on Washington last January. She had showed up to the march wearing her “Don't F with me” leather jacket, she said, and also brought along her then-2-year-old daughter.

“Yesterday, I gotta tell ya, I was pretty depressed,” Duckworth said at last year's Women’s March, of the inauguration that had taken place the day before. “This is about our country. I didn't shed blood to defend this nation [and] I didn't give up literally parts of my body to have the Constitution trampled on … to have them roll back our rights.”


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• Amy B Wang is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post covering national and breaking news.

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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: Senator Duckworth calls Trump a “five-deferement draft dodger” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/1497ba94-feb3-11e7-86b9-8908743c79dd_video.html)

 • VIDEO: Senator Duckworth: ‘I didn't give up literally parts of my body to have the Constitution trampled on’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/75f293a6-e003-11e6-8902-610fe486791c_video.html)

 • McCain hits Trump where it hurts, attacking ‘bone spur’ deferments in Vietnam (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/22/mccain-hits-trump-where-it-hurts-attacking-bone-spur-deferments-in-vietnam)


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/01/21/sen-tammy-duckworth-who-lost-her-legs-in-iraq-calls-trump-a-five-deferment-draft-dodger (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/01/21/sen-tammy-duckworth-who-lost-her-legs-in-iraq-calls-trump-a-five-deferment-draft-dodger)


Title: Re: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on January 22, 2018, 11:53:45 pm
so trump was not stupid enough to go to war and get his legs blown off, and that's a bad thing?


Title: Re: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on January 23, 2018, 09:25:03 am

Donny Trump: “Mummy, mummy, those bad government men are trying to make me go to war and serve my country. Mummy, mummy, I'm scared I'll get hurt. Mummy, mummy, please make them stop. Mummy, mummy, I'm not as brave as other young Americans, because I'm a yellow-belly gutless-coward.”


Title: Re: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on January 23, 2018, 09:26:38 am

Half a century later....

President Donald. J. Trump: “I'm going to start a war with Kim Jong-un and with Iran, 'cause I don't give a shit about sending young American men and women to get hurt or killed fighting my wars.”


Title: Re: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on January 23, 2018, 01:33:49 pm
I think you need to go join the army in NK comrade and start a nuclear war with trump


Title: Re: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on January 23, 2018, 02:33:09 pm

Haw haw haw....“Cadet Bone Spurs”....the commander in chief who loves being the commander in chief of his countries armed forces, but who was a gutless, yellow-belly, cowardly draft-dodger when his country needed him.

I think the nickname “Cadet Bone Spurs” is highly appropriate for the gutless coward Donald J. Trump.


Title: Re: Cadet Bone Spurs: the gutless, cowardly, yellow-belly draft-dodger…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 08:06:35 pm

from The Washington Post…

The GOP is silent and spineless as Trump attacks a war hero

No surprises, really.

By JENNIFER RUBIN | 9:15AM EDT — Thursday, March 21, 2019

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President Donald J. Trump speaks on Wednesday at a tank factory in Lima, Ohio. — Photograph: Michael Conroy/Associated Press.

MANY media sleuths are trying to get to the bottom of the latest mystery: How could President Trump be so shockingly mean and disrespectful in keeping up a multi-day tirade against dead war hero John McCain? What set him off, and what strategy is behind all this?

Please. This is nothing new and nothing surprising in the least. It is Trump being Trump — lashing out at his moral superiors, trying to goad supporters into disavowing their own values to remain in his good graces, revealing his own pitiful inadequacies. There is no master plan here; this is the continuing deterioration of a mentally, temperamentally and ethically unfit man who sees the walls closing in on him and his political future in grave doubt.


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President Trump on Wednesday escalated his unrelenting attacks on the late senator from Arizona and former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who even in death has remained one of Trump's top targets for abuse as fellow Republicans have repeatedly begged him to stop.

In a five-minute diatribe during an appearance at a General Dynamics tank factory in Lima, Ohio, Trump argued that McCain, a lifelong Pentagon booster and former prisoner of war in Vietnam, “didn't get the job done” for veterans while also grousing that he did not receive proper gratitude for McCain's funeral last September.

“I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted, which as president I had to approve,” Trump said inaccurately, an apparent reference to allowing the use of military transport to carry McCain's body to Washington. “I don't care about this, I didn't get a thank-you, that's okay. We sent him on the way. But I wasn't a fan of John McCain.”

He also falsely accused McCain of spreading an intelligence dossier around before the election. (He gave it to the FBI after the election.)

How perfectly and entirely pathetic. The man who got multiple deferments to avoid serving his country in Vietnam whimpers about not getting a thank-you (from the dead man's grieving family?!) for doing nothing other than not nixing the customary trappings of a great man's funeral. McCain spent five years getting tortured; Trump whines for lack of a thank-you card? Nothing could better sum up the moral chasm between a great American hero and a shell of a man, one consumed by his endless narcissism.

Trump laughably said he was no “fan” of McCain — a war hero, public servant, human rights icon, devoted father, trusted friend, true wit and friend to fighting men and women and veterans. That's understandable, since the two share nothing in common.

The reaction, or non-reaction of Republicans to Trump's immoral reign of horror, is no surprise either. The party has been kow-towing to Trump for more than two years now. They never censured him for insisting there were some “very fine” people among the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville. They never condemned him for prior attacks on McCain, for racism or for much of anything else. Why should they start now?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) praised McCain but didn't mention Trump. A real profile in courage, huh? No, it is the same moral abdication we've seen since Trump took office. Senator Mitt Romney proclaimed himself stumped as to why Trump would attack his friend McCain. (Hint: Trump has no moral core and hates those who do.)

It was left to Senator Johnny Isakson (Republican-Georgia) to condemn Trump. He first told Bulwark: “I just want to lay it on the line, that the country deserves better, the McCain family deserves better, I don't care if he's president of United States, owns all the real estate in New York, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world. Nothing is more important than the integrity of the country and those who fought and risked their lives for all of us.”

He then followed with an appearance on Georgia Public Radio. “We have young men and women qualified to do anything in the world that, on their own, volunteer and serve this country … they're fighting battles in lands far away,” Isakson said. "They're fighting for everything we believe in and everything we love in this country. … When it comes to it, as chairman of the Veterans Committee, I'm going to stand up for veterans.”

As with the vote on Trump's fake emergency declaration, when a mere 12 Senate Republicans broke with Trump, the number of those willing to confront Trump over something as egregiously wrong as trashing a dead hero says more about the state of the party than it does about Trump. Trump, we know, is a louse. We have been reminded in the past few weeks just how spineless and soulless is his party.


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Jennifer Rubin (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jennifer-rubin) writes reported opinion from a center-right perspective for The Washington Post. She covers a range of domestic and foreign policy issues and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican Party and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades, an experience that informs and enriches her work. She is a mother of two sons and lives in Northern Virginia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/21/dont-act-so-surprised-when-trump-acts-like-trump (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/21/dont-act-so-surprised-when-trump-acts-like-trump)