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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Maybe you should go dig up the corpses and see if they give a f uck?
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^ Well of course they don't, but arguing about correct use of language is par for the course on MB. I'm calling out Frownland's post as being inaccurate. Photos from My Lai and talk of corpses doesn't alter that inaccuracy.
Also, my original point is failing to understand Anteater's comment about Trump.
I'm not fetishizing soldiers, or endorsing America's involvement in Vietnam or suggesting that civilian deaths are ok. I'm just suggesting that Trump should show some respect for a US soldier who has endured five horrific years of a kind that Trump can prob not imagine.
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Originally Posted by Anteater
Trump is right about McCain though.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
Trump on McCain:-
It doesn't matter when or where the fighting is, there is one common theme among soldiers returning from war and that is that the civilian population have no idea what a soldier in battle really goes through. Most civilians accept this and give due respect to war vets.
Not so civilian Trump who says of John McCain, " He's not a war hero.....he's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, ok?" In one assinine sentence Trump belittles McCain's courage during years of imprisonment and torture. Also, by implication, he belittles every soldier who had the misfortune to become a POW by implying that being captured is the fault of the individual soldier. Anyone with a passing knowledge of military history knows that this is not necessarily the case. The problema is that Trump has all the intuition about war of a ten-year-old watching a movie,bouncing up and down in his seat shouting bam-bam. This is borne out by his comments about the security guard who failed to go into the Parkland school: "I don't know, but if it was me, I think I would've gone in..." Dream on, you pathetic draft-dodging coward.
Me on Anteater:- 
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