Posted on 02/15/2016 10:12:06 PM PST by agrarianlady
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy, but his comments at his last rally before the Iowa caucuses begin has shocked and offended many combat veterans.
At the event in Cedar Rapids, Trump described for the crowd a conversation he had had with a young man who had served two tours of duty in the Middle East, according to a report from Buzzfeed. This veteran told Trump that the "enemy" had stolen a lot of American military equipment, including armor-plated Humvees.
What Trump said next set Twitter ablaze: Trump claimed that the armor on these vehicles was strong enough that if a bomb went off, the people inside would be "okay" and just "go for a little ride upward and then they come down."
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A flood of combat veterans began sharing their own experiences about how IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) and other bombs had caused serious injuries to themselves or their fellow service members, or even resulted in deaths."
Trump's comment that troops in armored vehicles simply "go for a little ride" after being hit by an IED shows a complete lack of understanding of the threats faced by American troops. Thousands of troops have been killed in armored vehicles hit by IEDs, and over 1,500 of us have lost at least one limb. Those of us who were lucky took "a little ride" to Walter Reed Army Medical Center or elsewhere for treatment. The unlucky ones took "a little ride" to Arlington cemetery.
(Iraq War veteran J.R. Salzman)
(Excerpt) Read more at journal.ijreview.com ...
Please tell us —— who knows so much so we can vote for them ?
Trump has never served in a combat zone, so I doubt he knows diddly about the dangers. Trump serves himself and that is it. He has no compassion for the vet. Let him throw around his money. That still does not buy his way into a vote from this veteran.
Your key word is “faith.” It’s irrational faith, but you’re correct you and other supporters have “faith” in him. Faith is necessary here because there is no good reason to believe Trump is knowledgeable about the most important subjects a president must understand.
Pick any of the Republicans besides Trump that fit your values. This way you’ll be in synch with your own values and interests and you won’t be putting an amateur, new convert to his own brand of “conservatism,” first-time blowhard in the White House.
But but — TRUMP is the ONLY ONE who is honest and loves America and wants to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN !
and has PROVEN EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE !
Didn’t Trump give money to both those losers?
He’s the only one who is really, really smart, too. Everybody else, as he says, is a hack and a jerk and a big fat liar. He’s the only one who knows what’s on the “shows” and therefore knows foreign policy. America needs a ultra rich kid who grew up to be a dilettante Democrat and who decided in his mid 60’s he was a conservative after funding liberals all of his life. LOL.
Sitting down playing pedal steel on tiny club stages. Always had the drummer behind me and a ride cymbal in one ear or the other. The tinnitus is louder than people speak, so I’m kinda cut off from normal activity. It sucks!
What’s pedal steel? is it both ears?
and BELIEVE ME, you have my utmost empathy.
it can be quite maddening.
Cruz supporters playing politics with our Wounded Warriors. Is there no level they won’t stoop to.
THE IED’S WERE DESIGNED AND SENT FROM IRAN..... how about that point...???
Sadr and the Iranian revolutionary guard were responsible....
plus we sent vulnerable humvees and let hundreds payt he price for corrupt purchasing practices..... pentagon sop...
we should have put iran on notice and bombed them....
no.... we let our troops get killed and mutilated....
it would take the usa about a week to take iran totally out...
no... we will let them build and use a nuke...
so you tell me what is going on...???
IMO ... only Eisenhower and Kennedy came close to having the "knowledge" of which you speak
Even Dubya had advisors
Look ... NO MAN is perfect and every pubbie orrered has had their good and bad points
When it's all said and done ... Politics is a religion, especially with the dems and libs .... THEY'RE the ones that come up with rule, regulation and law that is hatched in a think tank of less than human entities.
I am so sorry. My tinnitus is not as bad as that. I have hearing loss worse in my right ear especially but I can still understand what people are saying to me under normal conditions. Being in a loud environment makes my tinnitus worse. Stress and not getting enough sleep makes it worse. If I forget to take my blood pressure meds it gets worse.
I guess that it serves me right, my step grandfather spent a lot of time in B-17 bombers during WWII and had severe hearing problems from that. He was a super nice guy. When I was a teenager my friends and I used to make light of his difficulty because he talked funny and often couldn’t understand what people were saying to him.
Usually used in Country Music, but lots of Indie stuff, and Robert Randolf rocks our. Kere’s a classic.
Both ears.
This is a common misconception — it even took Walter Reed time to figure out, and they are still working hard to deal with the brain trauma caused by the severe concussive force of the IEDs, which rock the brain and bruise it inside the skull even from great distances. Hope he has been informed correctly. Certainly it was not his intention to offend the vets, of whom he has otherwise been very supportive.
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