Posted on 01/18/2020 7:17:35 PM PST by conservative98
ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Saturday the Oval Office requires a wartime veteran, a niche he occupies exclusively among top-tier candidates in his party’s race for the 2020 nomination.
During an interview on Iowa PBS in suburban Des Moines, Buttigieg was asked if there’s value in a president who had faced hostile fire.
Buttigieg, a Naval intelligence officer in Afghanistan in 2014, noted he had been present for rocket attacks while stationed at Bagram Airfield, and later faced potential danger as an armed driver in Kabul. Another presidential candidate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, served in Iraq, but is running far behind the front-running candidates.
“This is very real for me,” Buttigieg told interviewer David Yepsen. “And I do believe there is value in someone in the Oval Office understanding what’s at stake, understanding at a personal level what’s at stake, when decisions are made that could send people into a conflict.”
Buttigieg often sites his seven months deployed to Afghanistan, though has seldom said as directly the next president should be a wartime veteran. The 37-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is the only military veteran in the top tier of the field of Democrats running for president. He would be the only president to have served in the military since George W. Bush.
“That perspective is needed especially when we’ve got a president who thinks that strength is the same as the chest-thumping of the loudmouth guy at the end of the bar,” Buttigieg said.
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He is a rear area veteran no matter where he was deployed.
He is a rear area veteran no matter where he was deployed.
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Definitely the picture in the dictionary for a
REMF!!!!
For this clown, everything pertains to the ‘rear’ and for a ‘dzychain’ type event,
TO THE REAR MARCH takes on a whole new meaning.
The Schiff chute is definitely over worked.
I wonder if he knows one. SEVEN MONTHS in “wartime” Afghanistan and he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal. ROTFL. Bootyjudge is worse than John “Reporting for Doody” Kerry.
He looks like a cross between Alfred E Newman and Mr.Bean!
And Jimmy Carter says the President should also be a peanut farmer.
Were Fudgepackin Pete”s foxholes warm and fuzzy?
Were Fudgepackin Pete”s foxholes warm and fuzzy?
still to this day rocket rider faces incoming fire...
President Trump seems to be doing fine for me
If Kurt Schlichter notices this statement he’ll have a field day with it in a column. Will have to watch for that.
America got the businessman we desperately needed.
As for putting this freak show in the office of president, Butt Plug ain’t gonna happen.
Rear Admiral Pete, reporting for doodie!
I’ve heard that he can “lick any man in the house”
@PeteButtigieg Too funny that you say the Oval Office needs a wartime veteran - from a desk wonk that ‘could’ve been in danger”.
President Trump is on more danger from stray golf shots than you ever were..funny how many Dems try to leverage military service by ‘enhancements’...
Thank You!.......;)
Thank You.......;)
Why? There is a rumor that Pete Buttplug is a CIA man.
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