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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome Pompeo news...looks like a good source
Ned Price:@nedprice
Special Asst to @POTUS44 & @NSC44 Spox. @CIA before. Now direct policy & comms @NatSecAction, teach @ GW, & @NBC contributor. Aspiring public servant again.
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)He constantly bashes Sen. Blumenthal for his election blunder of saying he served in Vietnam as opposed to during Vietnam (he served stateside during the war.)
I highly doubt he, or anyone else on the right, will care much.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)along with all the OTHER news flying towards us...Standing by to see how this story pans out!
mythology
(9,527 posts)Was like being in the military.
PCIntern
(25,554 posts)Thats all I can say anymore
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)I just hang out here on DU posting photos and the occasional tweet, because, like you, all I got to say now is holy SHIT!!!
dameatball
(7,398 posts)Dems need their own "Swift Boat" campaign.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Not gonna happen unfortunately.
We know that the Swiftboating campaign that John O'Neill started with the other lying ass swift boaters against Kerry was a pack of DAMN LIES, but most Democrats that I saw never really pointed that out or challenged them. Kerry himself said years later that he SHOULD have fought back against the lies, but his reasoning for not fighting back is that he "thought" that people would see through the lies. Uh NO, you couldn't depend on people being fully aware or engaged in 2004, and you especially can't not now-a-days because you have SO much propaganda out there flooding the airwaves: ruskie bots. Faux Noose 24/7, gish galloping thuglicans like Marsha Blackburn, twitter/Facebook before they got checked (I "guess" they got checked), and a mostly corporate media who won't call thuglicans out on their lies. I stomached Andrea Mitchell during the 2016 campaign year, and all that hack did was criticize Hillary or carp on and on about Hillary's emails I'm told by friends who can stomach that hack that she's said nothing about Jarvanka's email problems.
As we KNOW, thuglicans are extremely skilled @ loud-talking, and talking over Dems. They turn things around on Dems who don't fight back enough IMHO. Too many Dems on shows over the years have sat there like polite bumps on pickles, yielding to blathering thuglicans, so I stopped watching them on CNN and most shows on MSNBC. Dems usually truth tell, but thuglicans have gish galloping, lying, loud-talking, etc. down PAT ..... I hope you get what I'm saying about there NOT being a competent Democratic Swiftboating squad that would counter thuglicans and their DAMN LIES etc.
dameatball
(7,398 posts)OnDoutside
(19,960 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Stolen Glory may be cool for chickenhawk republicans like Dirty Donny, their ignoble Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, but it ain't ok at all. In fact, it's downright dishonorable.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)did not fight in the Gulf War.
Apparently, many members of congress and media outlets have claimed he did fight in the Gulf War, but Pompeo has never publicly corrected the error.