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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump speaking to Sailors: .. 'We would've won Afghanistan easy. But we got politically correct.'
And there stands the turd in his Red HAT making up foolish crap!!
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Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct.
(Trump dodged the Vietnam draft five times)
Link to tweet
pfitz59
(12,928 posts)Does he think sailors have no memory?
riversedge
(81,542 posts)riversedge
(81,542 posts)Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,532 posts)What is winning Afghanistan? The orange simpleton is such a clod.
Crunchy Frog
(28,299 posts)Once you've done that, you've "won".
riversedge
(81,542 posts)I am disappointed to hear these sailors clapping. Trump thinks he is at a campaign rally.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
Link to tweet
Maru Kitteh
(32,010 posts)Its happening, here.
AStern
(916 posts)It's depressing.
sop
(19,313 posts)Fuck this guy!
Permanut
(8,572 posts)It literally is every day.
lastlib
(28,613 posts)...that Afghanistan is where empires go to die. Even Alexander the Great found that out. The British never conquered it. The Soviets failed. And so did we.
IcyPeas
(25,797 posts)Many people seem to have forgotten about Abu Ghraib.
— Andrew Whiteley (@andrewwhiteley.bsky.social) 2025-09-29T11:35:30.812Z
The human pyramid â one of many torture techniques used by the US Army & the CIA at Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, 2003 www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...
— Carceral Abolition (@carceralabolition.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T01:11:54.901Z
Our leadership has not improved since Abu Ghraib. At least those National Guard/prison guards were not wearing tight shirts, heavy makeup, and ,000 watches.
— Martha near Seattle, 8647 (@marthawt.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T04:40:58.465Z
One of the many photographs of the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal: American soldier Lynndie England forcing an inmate, known to the guards as "Gus", to crawl and bark like a dog on a leash. Iraq, 2003 www.reddit.com/r/SnapshotHi...
— Carceral Abolition (@carceralabolition.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T07:06:34.664Z
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LudwigPastorius
(15,006 posts)What the fuck does that even mean, you orange, pus-filled Hot Pocket?
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