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To: Arthur McGowan

It’s tough for me to take any of these “draft dodger” charges seriously.

My dad was in Vietnam, and he really shocked me when he told me, based on his experience with the American military, he would fully support and aid any of his sons that chose to resist being drafted.

Aside from the fact we haven’t been in an existential conflict since WW2, he believed our military was such a clusterf**k that he couldn’t, in good conscience, advocate a young man placing his life in their hands.

Now I’ve never been in the military, so I can’t render such an opinion myself. But when a guy with the record of service and accomplishment that my dad had says such things, I can not cavalierly dismiss them.


53 posted on 03/26/2016 1:12:38 AM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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To: papertyger

Especially now, when American foreign policy’s primary goal is the slaughter of Christians and the establishment of the caliphate—to rule over the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

Planeloads of Muslim warriors are arriving nightly on the East and West coasts, and the Muslims are being distributed around the U.S.

Obama MUST give them the order to strike sometime in the next few months.


55 posted on 03/26/2016 1:58:42 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: papertyger

Especially since Trump’s draft number was well over 300.

I notice that Cruz and the Cruzbots just LOVE to omit relevant facts.

The lie that turned me off Cruz was when he turned Trump’s promise that the absolutely destitute would not be allowed to “die in the streets” into: “Donald Trump supports socialized single-payer healthcare for all Americans.”

I’ve had exchanges with two Cruzbots about this. Neither one of them would answer this question: “How does ‘I won’t let the destitute die in the street’ translate to “single-payer socialize healthcare for all Americans’?” One of them simply called me Satanic, repeatedly. The other one wrote a dozen or so posts claiming that I had misused the word “socialist” and therefore am too ignorant to have any discussion with. He never even acknowledged that I was asking him a question, which I did over and over.

Andrew Klavan, Ben Shapiro, and Cruz’s Slappy-in-Chief Steve Deace have been repeating that lie daily for weeks and weeks. I heard Ken Blackwell LEAD with that lie when Deace asked him Thursday night to tell the audience just how evil Trump is.

The other day Tucker Carlson noted that many Repubs have called Trump Hitler. He said (paraphrasing), You just don’t retract that. Once you’ve called someone Hitler you don’t get to retract that. No one who has called Trump Hitler is going to have any role or any influence in a Trump administration. These people have all crossed a Rubicon.


56 posted on 03/26/2016 2:32:18 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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