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The next time we go to war it will be with a female commander in chief! (Original Post) DFab420 Apr 2016 OP
Very possible. She has definitely shown no hesitation... actslikeacarrot Apr 2016 #1
She Is Just Itching To Deploy A Carrier Task Group Or Show Putin Who Is Boss! CorporatistNation Apr 2016 #16
Have you enlisted? Downwinder Apr 2016 #2
I aged out already, but yup at 18 I signed up for the draft does that count? DFab420 Apr 2016 #3
I have never held it against anybody for not serving Downwinder Apr 2016 #10
Yes, Glad Someone Else Here Knows Who Smedley Is And What A courageous Man He Was! Sage Words.. CorporatistNation Apr 2016 #18
Interesting. PyaarRevolution Apr 2016 #53
Gender if fluid, trying to attribute through writing is especially DFab420 Apr 2016 #55
Obligatory DookDook Apr 2016 #59
I'm still stuck here. VulgarPoet Apr 2016 #37
My money is on Iran. nt Land of Enchantment Apr 2016 #4
Nah. She'll try and mop up in Libya and Syria. frylock Apr 2016 #24
Trust me, it will be Iran. PyaarRevolution Apr 2016 #58
yea!!!!!!! wendylaroux Apr 2016 #5
It's GREAT for the economy lostnfound Apr 2016 #6
You seem to be fixated on Clintons gender today. Nt NCTraveler Apr 2016 #7
Post removed Post removed Apr 2016 #8
I am a vet, and I will tell you TM99 Apr 2016 #13
Perfect response. Joe the Revelator Apr 2016 #15
like bernie voting for lockheed because it gets F35s in vermont is NOT a business opportunity lol nt msongs Apr 2016 #17
Take your bullshit TM99 Apr 2016 #19
Brady Bill redstateblues Apr 2016 #29
Another non-entity weighs in TM99 Apr 2016 #30
The same F-35s that Hillary has promised to "sell" to Israel? frylock Apr 2016 #25
Great response, thanks Duckhunter935 Apr 2016 #26
Great response, 99. VulgarPoet Apr 2016 #38
Bravo! I totally support you! People that support a candidate that is obviously pro aggressive Seeinghope Apr 2016 #64
This is yet another reason why serious centrists Warren Stupidity Apr 2016 #9
I like your "sensible centrist". nm rhett o rick Apr 2016 #21
January 21, 2017 RufusTFirefly Apr 2016 #11
That's ridiculous treestar Apr 2016 #12
LOL. In your dreams. The neocons and the MIC don't agree with you. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #22
Oh please treestar Apr 2016 #35
You're assuming there won't be another 9/11 davidn3600 Apr 2016 #42
They were born in Belgium, I think all american girl Apr 2016 #63
That poster doesn't do "reality." morningfog Apr 2016 #40
You must not listen to your candidate. morningfog Apr 2016 #31
Hillary as "warmonger" is just made up treestar Apr 2016 #36
No. You don listen. morningfog Apr 2016 #39
Kind of talks and laughs like a ... PufPuf23 Apr 2016 #43
lmao. nt. polly7 Apr 2016 #44
To this day she has never been empathetic about those killed in Iraq or our rhett o rick Apr 2016 #45
I'll show you which wars she was in favor of if you show me which wars she was against. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2016 #60
You're a busy bunny today. grossproffit Apr 2016 #14
Bernie is not a pacifist. rug Apr 2016 #20
Yeap, dares not to speak against the MIC uponit7771 Apr 2016 #51
They always find new, creative ways of tricking us into war - let's not fall for it this time! reformist2 Apr 2016 #23
We have no choice. This is not a democracy. nm rhett o rick Apr 2016 #46
She won't hesitate to safeguard our country... beachbum bob Apr 2016 #27
Or order a no fly zone in Syria, which is an act of war. morningfog Apr 2016 #32
That's what Bush said. That's Bush's and Clinton's excuse for invading Iraq. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #47
good gawd. snot Apr 2016 #28
Well as long as Hillary has Kissinger as her "mentor" and 7wo7rees Apr 2016 #33
+1 840high Apr 2016 #34
+2 DFab420 Apr 2016 #49
She dodged bullets from sniper fire in Bosnia. That makes her B Calm Apr 2016 #41
Today's special ... Tweet sized outrages!!!!! JoePhilly Apr 2016 #48
Sanders vowed to cut the MIC budget !!! Oh wait, ... sigh... just another politician uponit7771 Apr 2016 #50
Educate yourself. DFab420 Apr 2016 #52
lol... he's against half a trillion dollars being spent and not for cutting it in half and putting.. uponit7771 Apr 2016 #57
Please tell me this is sarcasm tymorial Apr 2016 #54
Warren in 2020?? Logical Apr 2016 #56
I assume the OP is sarcasm. If not, then it is disgusting. Bread and Circus Apr 2016 #61
We are MORE LIKELY to go to war with HRC as commander in chief Martin Eden Apr 2016 #62

CorporatistNation

(2,546 posts)
16. She Is Just Itching To Deploy A Carrier Task Group Or Show Putin Who Is Boss!
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:40 PM
Apr 2016

Very Dangerous! ... And I am NOT kidding! The end of the world could well be in sight...

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
10. I have never held it against anybody for not serving
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:27 PM
Apr 2016

in the military. I have always agreed with General Butler. WAR is a racket.

CorporatistNation

(2,546 posts)
18. Yes, Glad Someone Else Here Knows Who Smedley Is And What A courageous Man He Was! Sage Words..
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:44 PM
Apr 2016

from a man who knew war intimately... Hillary's lack of "experience" with the physical sequaela of war and respect for what the costs of military force, lack of foresight (Proven Evidence W/ Hillary)... should give pause toanyone with her as "Commander in Chief..."

PyaarRevolution

(814 posts)
53. Interesting.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:45 PM
Apr 2016

Guess I was wrong, I got the vibe from your post that you were a woman.

Yeah we all had to sign up for the draft.

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)
37. I'm still stuck here.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:35 AM
Apr 2016

And y'know what, I firmly believe she'll waste even more of my brothers and sisters in arms in overseas regime changes.

PyaarRevolution

(814 posts)
58. Trust me, it will be Iran.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:53 PM
Apr 2016

She will be that foolish. I mean, she might be foolish in the hawk respect but I don't think she's stupid enough to go after Russia, at least I hope not.

Response to DFab420 (Original post)

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
13. I am a vet, and I will tell you
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:35 PM
Apr 2016

what is disrespectful.

It is hawks like Clinton who push them because Iraq is a business opportunity, because Ghaffadi won't play our oil game, and because Syria is an ally of Russia.

So how dare you attack a Sanders supporters for being concerned with your fucking candidate leading us into another war.

Who in the hell to you think you are to castigate any adult voter? Who in the hell do you think you are to call Sanders a crook when your candidate is under active investigation by the fucking FBI?

Who in the hell are you?

msongs

(67,406 posts)
17. like bernie voting for lockheed because it gets F35s in vermont is NOT a business opportunity lol nt
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:43 PM
Apr 2016
 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
19. Take your bullshit
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:50 PM
Apr 2016

talking points elsewhere.

Trying to compare a damned jet in Vermont to the Iraq invasion is the epitome of logical fallacies.

Do you get a thrill when you post this over and over? Do you think you are some how really sneaky smart and got a gotcha in on us all?

Jesus.

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
30. Another non-entity weighs in
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 10:52 PM
Apr 2016

with manufactured talking points!

Let's see - Clinton was against guns in CT but was for them in PA.

 

Seeinghope

(786 posts)
64. Bravo! I totally support you! People that support a candidate that is obviously pro aggressive
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 03:55 PM
Apr 2016

military action should be the 1st people that line up to enlist for the military. PERIOD. The people that want to call Bernie Sanders a crook need to look at their own candidate, Hillary Clinton who is being investigated by the FBI. It is really rich to point fingers and call names at someone else when your candidate is actually being investigated for what could be equated to national security violations.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
9. This is yet another reason why serious centrists
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:20 PM
Apr 2016

support Hillary.

She will pick and choose sensible wars to keep our vastly bloated war budget intact and thus keep our military industry very profitable.

This is why I am a sensible centrist for Clinton.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
35. Oh please
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:29 AM
Apr 2016

Give it a rest. We got involved in Afghanistan Iraq because the right used 911. And there was political will from the people post 911.

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
42. You're assuming there won't be another 9/11
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:48 AM
Apr 2016

With the way Hillary wants to speed up bringing in Syrian refugees, one terror attack will flip this country back to the hard right.

Just look what's happened to Belgium and France. It's well known ISIS slipped into those countries by pretending to be refugees.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
36. Hillary as "warmonger" is just made up
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:30 AM
Apr 2016

Voting for the IWR does not mean she is always for a war. Weak reasoning and over-generalization. Add repeating it a million times and you start to believe it. It's like religion. You created your own belief system.

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
39. No. You don listen.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:36 AM
Apr 2016

Pro-cluster bombs. She wants a no-fly zone in Syria, an act of war and an escalation. She wants to regime change Assad. She was a chief proponent of regime change in Libya. And then there is the Iraq war.

PufPuf23

(8,776 posts)
43. Kind of talks and laughs like a ...
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 09:31 AM
Apr 2016

warmonger.



The WikiLeaks release of emails with Blumenthal regards Libya did not put HRC in a good light aside from being insubordinate to POTUS Obama by involving Blumenthal.
 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
45. To this day she has never been empathetic about those killed in Iraq or our
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 09:58 AM
Apr 2016

troops for that matter. She said her "vote" was a mistake, her vote, not the war.

She said that the Iraqi's should be grateful we gave them "freedom".

She believes in the neocon idea of "spreading democracy" via wars. She can't wait to show Iran and Russia who the boss lady is.

snot

(10,529 posts)
28. good gawd.
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 10:51 PM
Apr 2016

How about, the next time we're spared another costly, useless war, it could be with a female commander in chief?

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? . . . But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. . . . All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

– Hermann Goering, per Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave Gilbert

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
48. Today's special ... Tweet sized outrages!!!!!
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 10:02 AM
Apr 2016

That's right ... the Bernie campaign is GOING OUT OF BUSINESS and we have hundreds and hundreds of outrages to unload of all sizes!!!!!!

Today's special ... Tweet sized outrages ... don't just go away .... go away MAD!!!!!!

DFab420

(2,466 posts)
52. Educate yourself.
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:44 PM
Apr 2016
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/sanders-opposes-bloated-pentagon-budget

http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-military-and-veterans/

Part of Bernie’s concern over the ballooning defense budget stems from what he sees as a lack of accountability on defense spending. In a statement explaining his “no” vote on the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, which set the military’s budget at $560 billion, Bernie expressed concern that “the military is unable to even account for how it spends all of its money.” Bernie also voted against the 2012 and 2013 defense authorization bills, voicing alarm at the size of the defense budget despite the United States having withdrawn all military members from Iraq at the end of 2011.

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
57. lol... he's against half a trillion dollars being spent and not for cutting it in half and putting..
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:48 PM
Apr 2016

... it into his programs so middle class taxes aren't raised.

Wouldn't that be more practical?

tia

Martin Eden

(12,867 posts)
62. We are MORE LIKELY to go to war with HRC as commander in chief
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:25 PM
Apr 2016

Biggest reason (among several) why I can't support her in a Democratic primary.

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