Mike Pence: West Point grads should expect to see combat
Source: Associated Press
Updated 1:59 pm CDT, Saturday, May 25, 2019
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) Vice President Mike Pence told the most diverse graduating class in the history of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that the world is "a dangerous place" and they should expect to see combat.
"Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq," he said.
Pence congratulated the West Point graduates on behalf of President Donald Trump, and told them, "As you accept the mantle of leadership I promise you, your commander in chief will always have your back. President Donald Trump is the best friend the men and women of our armed forces will ever have."
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Pence noted that Trump has proposed a $750 billion defense budget for 2020 and said the United States "is once again embracing our role as the leader of the free world."
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/VP-Pence-to-address-graduating-cadets-at-West-13896287.php
hack89
(39,171 posts)There hasn't been a West Point class that hasn't seen combat.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)Who will send them to die in wars of opportunity and tellling you they died for your freedom
former9thward
(32,077 posts)If that is the criteria then we should have shut the doors on the Pentagon decades ago....
Angleae
(4,493 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)chicken hawk pieces of shit!
Roy Rolling
(6,933 posts)One, for being a Vietnam vet. Those of our generation know your sacrifice, even if the newspapers highlighted the ungrateful. Thanks.
Two, for being a Democrat and not losing your values as you grew older. Sadly, it's mostly people our age who are the problem. They are loudmouths like Pence, thinking younger people will buy his and Trump's cowardly example. Younger people are smarter than that.
Which gives me hope. Right-wing zealots whose only strategy is to run out the clock run the risk of losing the war of attrition. And as Winston Churchill famously wrote (loosely), "I am unable to attend the funeral but I certainly approve of it".
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Mikey HateGaybutlikelyGayHimselfHelpMeMommyPence?
Pence looking at the gipper's... *cough*
sandensea
(21,664 posts)During his Hollywood/TV days they called him "Rainbow Ronnie."
Hey, it's no one's business - but when it comes to these politicos who basically made a career out of encouraging others to be hateful to LGBTs, minorities, immigrants, etc. they then make it our business.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)Hotler
(11,445 posts)grab all the Trump family personal belongings and throw them out in the street like what is done to poor people when they can't pay the rent.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)This Memorial Day, let us not forget those who paid the ultimate price for their country.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)business buddies, stealing the world's resources."
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)West point class of 2019...? Canada is nice in the summer...
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)"As you accept the mantle of leadership I promise you, your commander in chief will always have your back. President Donald Trump is the best friend the men and women of our armed forces will ever have."
If I was to give a address to these young men and woman that is so close to D-Day, I would have said................
On a June night 75 years ago, a plane with young men in the stick was being led on its way into Normandy, that plane was called the "That's All, Brother", it was leading over 800 planes with 13,000 men into battle on that night.
There was another plane that was going into Normandy, that was in that second formation of the 82nd Airborne on there way to Sainte-Mère-Église, which was going to be dropping its stick, that plane that was leading the 61st Troop Carrier Group was called the , Virginia Ann, two paratroopers on that flight would die in combat...............................
But nope, you have the audacity asshole to say this ....................because your criminal boss has no experience to relate too, to have served like those young men will be asked to do, but you and him and your asshole party will use them has cannon fodder to justify your sick intent of your imaginary patriotism ...........................
"As you accept the mantle of leadership I promise you, your commander in chief will always have your back. President Donald Trump is the best friend the men and women of our armed forces will ever have."
Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Tammy Duckworth nailed the chickenhawk's.................. your basically asshole's ................
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Marcuse
(7,506 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)RedParrot
(112 posts)Pence is telling graduates that their draft dodging commander in chief is going to send them to die in one of his vanity wars. Easy for those two to send others to war.
Puke!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)PIG!
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Time to go to sick call to have the bone spurs checked.
CinC Trump will have your back.
(sarcasm?)
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)FOR WHAT ASSHOLE? Got some plans we don't know about? Of course you do.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)" I promise you, your commander in chief will always have your back."
Trump killed four of our troops in Niger.
Our military requested more resources for Niger mission(s) but the Trump administration refused them.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-trump-niger-20171019-story.html
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)Way, way back.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)pwb
(11,287 posts).
dhill926
(16,355 posts)Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)they see combat a 1000 miles from the lines in a cushie little bunker, where they sacrifice the poor like pawns on a chessboard.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)His lies were unbecoming. And these young leaders know better than to believe ANYTHING coming out of this administration.
Initech
(100,102 posts)"Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."
So much for being pro life.