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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Why? Does he want to start a war with Iran?
He should trade war stories with Hillary.
Excuse me while I go barf. The thought of this little twerp as our nation’s Commander-in-Chief sickens me.
Does that include Obama?
He was a frickin REMF!!!
Not you Buttboy.
Limp wristed rump ranger.
Did he pose that way on purpose?
If we criticize Buttigieg, we hate the military, right?
Wasn’t this guy a rear area veteran? In that respect, he probably vastly experienced long before he joined the military.
OK, Alan West, works for me. OH wait it has to be a perfumed prince and a Democrat?
That is what he thinks is masculine, though he would not know masculinity if it hit him up-side the head. LOL
Powder puff Pete has as much chance of being thr CIC as a gerbil does getting out alive from a San Fran bath house...
That hasn’t stopped President Trump.
I somehow doubt there’s a single American Legion or VFW post, or any other credible veteran’s organization, that would endorse this little creep.
I wanna hear about how many times he fired a weapon. Big talk from a man who lets another man bugger him in the hind end.
The more someone makes sure you know they are a veteran, the less compelling their story typically is.
I can imagine the respect he would demand when people in their minds eye picture him with something stuck up his backside, yep I can picture it already......I can just imagine how some cultures will respect him.
This POS ogled straight soldiers in the shower while he was “in the closet.”
He prefers “friendly fire”.
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