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Botany

(70,504 posts)
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 08:53 AM Dec 2018

Our next UN Ambassador .... D-Day shows that America has a strong relationship w/Germany.

Nauert invokes D-Day while praising US-Germany relations State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert cited the allied D-Day invasion while praising the "strong relationship" between the United States and Germany.
Source: CNN

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/05/heather-nauert-state-department-d-day-us-germany-relationship-sot.cnn

Straight from Fox News, Heather Nauert

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Our next UN Ambassador .... D-Day shows that America has a strong relationship w/Germany. (Original Post) Botany Dec 2018 OP
Huh? PJMcK Dec 2018 #1
Well of course. jberryhill Dec 2018 #3
Hah! PJMcK Dec 2018 #6
Well she is no Henry Cabott Lodge or Daniel Patrick Moynihan Botany Dec 2018 #5
To be fair... jberryhill Dec 2018 #2
Good one! McCamy Taylor Dec 2018 #13
One more malaise Dec 2018 #4
JFC Fuzzpope Dec 2018 #7
Trump used the wrong head when he selected her. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 #8
Looks and sounds like she is straight from Fox and Frauds DFW Dec 2018 #9
Christopher Moore has a word for women like her- rzemanfl Dec 2018 #10
"Heather looks good. Not as tremendous as Ivanka. But very, very qualified." dalton99a Dec 2018 #11
If only we had some books, movies, history, vets, a cemetery w/thousand of American G.I.s on a ... Botany Dec 2018 #14
Truer words than she realized. Germany has no military to speak of and therefore McCamy Taylor Dec 2018 #12

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
1. Huh?
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 08:56 AM
Dec 2018

Does she know we were fighting the Germans on the beaches of Normandy? Did I miss something?

In another thread, I suggested that her confirmation hearings ought to be quite interesting and entertaining.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. Well of course.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 08:57 AM
Dec 2018

Without the Germans, it would have been pointless. So we shouldn’t ignore their contribution to the effort.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
5. Well she is no Henry Cabott Lodge or Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 08:59 AM
Dec 2018

So the Nazis were the bad guys in WW II? Who knew?

DFW

(54,379 posts)
9. Looks and sounds like she is straight from Fox and Frauds
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 09:11 AM
Dec 2018

She totally mischaracterizes what Trump's ambassador to Germany said. He said he was here to support right wing movements in Germany and elsewhere, and nearly got his ass sent home on the same plane he arrived on.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
14. If only we had some books, movies, history, vets, a cemetery w/thousand of American G.I.s on a ...
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 12:48 PM
Dec 2018

.... bluff in France, or any kind of record of D-Day then Ms. Heather Nauert might have known
about it. She has a degree from Columbia U.?

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
12. Truer words than she realized. Germany has no military to speak of and therefore
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 12:41 PM
Dec 2018

is rich (the peace benefit) because they have been under our thumb since WWII.

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