How can any military Veteran support Donald Trump? By believing in conspiracy theories I suppose. By being threatened by women leaders I guess.
"88 Former Military Leaders Endorse Donald Trump's Presidential Bid"
September 7, 20165:07 AM ETHeard on Morning Edition
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/07/492926666/88-former-military-leaders-come-out-in-support-of-donald-trump
Donald Trump is not tough folks. He is a bully and a coward, picking on weaker people every chance he gets. How can you not see he is a bully?
Trump is not a change either. He is more of a different kind of sameness. He is "smart" because he does not pat Federal taxes. He is smart because when he is sued he settles out of court. And he has been sued a lot! He is smart because he avoided the military all his life with a physical impairment, even tho he was a star baseball player. Trump is a rich person out to help rich people and to enrich himself. His tax plan supports the rich, not Vets.
Trump is playing Vets like a fiddle. Trump has some Vets buying his sales pitch like a travelling salesman sells them a vacuum, or new set of kitchen knives.
I feel the Vets that support Trump are buying his promises, and they are going to get nothing from this travelling salesman charlatan.
If it sounds too good to be true, IT IS NOT TRUE!
It is no surprise that the 88 retired Generals supporting Trump are all weak sisters. Donald Trump has so little military experience he thinks the endorsement of any general is a good endorsement. "WRONG!"
"The Disgraced and Little-Known Generals Backing Donald Trump
Retired military leaders who have been brushed by scandal and even talked about America’s war with Satan are among those backing his campaign."
by Nancy Youssef, 6 Sep 2016
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/06/the-disgraced-and-little-known-generals-backing-donald-trump.html
This list of 88 includes disgraced soldiers who have betrayed America in all sort of ways.
Trump support by conspiracy thinkers is not surprising, and also WORTH NOTHING!
Mitt Romney had 500 leaders who were sane supporters from the military!
James Lyons (admiral) is truly and obviously a conspiracy loving nut case, by the way, a closet paranoid delusional, so I hope no Vet follows him into the "war." When he went "ret," he also retired his brain and believes Hillary had an affair with an alien, and had an alien baby to boo.
He has not spent 1 day in the military. Trump does not take time to learn there are women generals in the military. He says Navy Admirals, especially Lyons, would not obey her orders because she is a woman. Donald, here are some women in the Navy who are generals and leaders:
OFFICERS
The highest-ranking women in the Navy are:
Admiral Michelle Howard (Surface Warfare Officer) is the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, making her the first female and first African American to become a 4-star admiral in the Navy.
Vice Admiral Robin Braun is the 12th Chief of the Navy Reserve, first female leader of the Navy Reserve, and the highest ranking female Aviator.
Vice Admiral Nora Tyson (Naval Flight Officer) is the Commander, U.S. Third Fleet.
Vice Admiral Jan Tighe is the Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command Command, U.S. 10th Fleet, the Navy's first female commander of a numbered fleet and the highest ranking female Information Warfare Officer.
Rear Admiral Ann Burkhardt is the highest ranking Human Resources Officer in the Navy.
Rear Admiral Katherine Gregory is the first female Chief of Civil Engineers, as well as the highest ranking female Civil Engineer Corps Officer.
Rear Admiral Margaret Kibben is the first female Chief of Navy Chaplains and the first female two-star Navy chaplain.
Rear Admiral Martha Herb is the only female Explosive Ordnance Disposal admiral.
Rear Admiral Babbette Bolivar is the first female Commander Joint Region Marianas and also holds the distinction of being the first female commander of Navy Region is the highest ranking Medical Corps admiral.
Northwest.Vice Admiral Raquel Bono is the highest ranking Medical Corps admiral.
Rear Admiral Elaine Wagner is the only female Dental Corps admiral. Rear Admiral Dawn Cutler is the first female Chief of Naval Information and the highest ranking female Public Affairs Officer.
For more biographies on female flag officers, visit the Naval History and Heritage Command webpage.
Trump sees no problem disrespecting Gold Star recipients and Viet Nam war heroes (Do you trust John McCain?)!
John McCain: 'I don't know' if Trump will be better for Supreme Court than Clinton
By Chris Massie, CNN Updated 3:50 PM ET, Mon October 17, 2016
Trump: I Get My Military Advice from Watching Shows
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/16/trump-i-get-my-military-advice-from-watching-shows/
This headline from Breitbart, a major conservative web site.
Be aware! Beware! Vets, Donald Trump s NOT our best option for Commander in Chief. We have to hope he will delegate all the thinking and decisions to someone who knows what they are talking about. Donald Trump knows absolutely NOTHING about military strategy and tactics and is unteachable. He is too, too arrogant and will get us all killed.
Donald Trump will issue unlawful orders that I hope our military has the courage to reject, especially when he WANTS to use the nukes against innocent civilians! Donald Trump has no awareness of collateral damage folks!
Donald Trump Is Wrong on Mosul Attack, Military Experts Say
By ERIC SCHMITTOCT. 20, 2016
Read it yourself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/politics/donald-trump-mosul-iraq.html
Why Do Veterans Support Donald Trump?
Many believe he can shake up the system after the leadership vacuum that has allowed so many problems to grow.
By Michael T. McPhearson | June 28, 2016
http://billmoyers.com/story/veterans-support-donald-trump/
"only experience of the military came in a New York military academy where his father hoped he’d learn to control his bad behavior. Trump avoided service in the Vietnam war with four student deferments and during the campaign mocked the nation’s most celebrated POW, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)."
So why do Vets support Trump?
Vets, how can you believe Trump promises that seem too good to be true? You were in the military, and you know better. Do NOT judge Hillary because of Benghazi. YOu know the fig of war and know that was one of many wartime f**k ups. We f++k up in war ALL THE TIME! Taking quotes and videos of Hillary's response out of context, OF COURSE, will make her look bad. If I quote YOU out of context, I can make YOU look bad too.
I was always told, and you know this too, that if it seems too good to be true, it is probably (certainly) not true.
Change for the sake of change might take America from the frying pan into the fire.
Military people are generally conservative, and that is OK. We vote Republican / conservative. I am a retired 22 year Air Force Officer, so I voet Republican a lot.
Trump says using nukes is OK. Trump says, if you have nukes, they have to be on the table. Why not plan to use them? Really? Military know better than that! Do I need to tell you nukes will destroy the planet earth?
Trump to Stephanopoulos: 'You can tell your military expert that I'll sit down and teach him a couple of things'
Pamela Engel
Oct. 27, 2016, 10:02 AM
Donald Trump said in an interview on Thursday that he could teach military experts "a couple of things" about strategy. His comments came during a contentious exchange on the fight to retake an Iraqi city from the terrorist group ISIS.
The Republican presidential nominee has faced criticism for his insistence that the operation to reclaim Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, has been a "disaster," and some military experts have blasted him for seeming unfamiliar with military strategy.
"The defense secretary is on the ground. He says they're making progress," ABC News host George Stephanopoulos said of the Mosul operation. "He's encouraged by the progress. The former dean of the Army War College says this shows Trump doesn't know a damn thing about military strategy."
Trump responded with a common refrain about the Mosul operation lacking the element of surprise.
"The Army War College. Let me tell you, the element of surprise," he said. "I've been hearing about Mosul now for three months. 'We're going to attack, we're going to attack,' meaning Iraq is going to attack, but with us, OK? We're going to attack."
He continued: "Why do they have to talk about it? Don't talk about it. Element of surprise. One of the reasons they wanted Mosul, they wanted to get ISIS leaders who they thought were, you know, in Mosul. Those people have all left. As soon as they heard they're going to be attacked, they left. The resistance is much greater now because they knew about the attack. Why can't they win first and talk later?"
Stephanopoulos then pointed out that Defense Secretary Ash Carter had said the US-led anti-ISIS coalition had killed 35 ISIS leaders so far.
"Excuse me," Trump said. "The resistance is much greater now because they knew about the attack. Why can't they win first and talk later? Why do they have to say three months before the attack we're going in? So you can tell your military expert that I'll sit down and teach him a couple of things."
Donald Trump sacrifice for our country: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/16/draft-dodger-trump-said-sleeping-around-was-my-personal-vietnam.html -
Trump to Stephanopoulos: 'You can tell your military expert that I'll sit down and teach him a couple of things'
Really!? Repeat the most foolish, scary dumb thing Donald Trump has said about the military: Trump to Stephanopoulos: 'You can tell your military expert that I'll sit down and teach him a couple of things' Donald Trump said in an interview on Thursday...
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-military-expert-mosul-stephanopoulos-2016-10
Vets that support Trump need to understand if Trump is elected he will be an arrogant Commander in Chief who might go to war over a twitter insult and he really thinks he is a military leader because he negotiating some "good deals" for casinos, hotels, and golf courses!
Trump's main argument about the Mosul initiative, which I think will fail, but for different reason than Donald Trump, should have been a surprise. Trump says we should not have announced the attack, but rather should have gone in as a surprise attack. Maybe a surprise would have been better, but there are innocent people there and no one wears an ISIS uniform. A surprise would probably kill too many innocent civilians, i.e., ugly collateral damage. Donald Trump does not even know what collateral damage is. He probably doesn't care either.
My opinion is that the main focus of the war is a battle between Islamic factions, Shiite and Sunni. Taking back Mosul will leave us with the battle between these factions no matter what Mosul looks like in a month.
By the way, if vets think we blew the Iran deal under Obama, read this:
Born In The USA: How America Created Iran's Nuclear Program
September 18, 201512:00 PM ET
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/09/18/440567960/born-in-the-u-s-a-how-america-created-irans-nuclear-program
Trump does not know this FACT, or does not want t admit that Obama was 4 years old when the United States started Iran's nuclear capability.
"It started in 1957," he says, "and ironically, it is a creation of the United States. The U.S. provided Iran with its first research reactor — a nuclear reactor, a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor that is still functioning and still operational in Tehran."
The U.S. built that nuclear reactor in 1967 on the campus of Tehran University. It also provided Iran with fuel for that reactor — weapons-grade enriched uranium."
The challenge of "helping" the Middle East is too hard for a Western Country. Our culture is too different. For example, the supposed "good" "rebels" in Syria are now, 3 November 2016, using Syrian civilians as human shields in Syria, Allppo. Are these the kind of people we should help?
Rebel groups clash with each other in Syria's Aleppo
Reuters report
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-aleppo-idUSKBN12Y1JM
