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Republican Combat Vet: Trump Is Openly Advocating War Crimes
Buzz Feed ^ | 03/04/2016 | Christopher Massie

Posted on 03/04/2016 9:25:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a former Air Force pilot who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said on Thursday that Donald Trump is openly advocating war crimes that would cause the soldiers who obeyed his orders to be jailed.

“If you’re a private in the field and your major or your colonel orders you to do something that is a war crime, you actually bear responsibility, you can’t say that the colonel made me do it,” said Kinzinger, who is supporting Marco Rubio. “What Donald Trump, as wanting to be president of the United States is advocating, is a war crime that would force every soldier that did, i.e. killed the relatives of terrorists, tortured regardless of whether it not it works, the things that he’s advocating would force all of these people in jail.”

Speaking on the Steve Cochran Show on Chicago radio, Kinzinger argued that Trump was either “all bluster” or comparable to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

“Now, you have to do one of two things,” he said. “You either believe that Donald trump is all bluster which most people do but for some reason they like that, or you take him at his word in which case he is advocating, like what Benito Mussolini did, war crimes.”

Kinzinger also said that what Trump was calling for “makes me sick.”

“For the leading Republican presidential candidate to advocate war crimes, which he does openly, just advocates war crimes, doesn’t matter, makes me sick really,” he said. “Especially as somebody that’s defended the country. It’s just terrible.”

Later in the interview, Kinzinger said, “I can’t see myself supporting Donald Trump. I never say definitively because who knows in the future. But I have no intention of supporting Donald Trump.”

As for his preferred candidate, Rubio, Kinzinger said he felt “pretty good” about the Florida senator’s chances of winning his home state’s primary, but that “I’d definitely rather be in Trump’s position politically.”


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To: 5thGenTexan

“Words mean something, too.”

Depends on the definition of those words. Here, in connection with terrorists, you are clearly wrong.


261 posted on 03/04/2016 4:09:28 PM PST by LaRueLaDue
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To: JerseyRepub
This man was on the front fighting to defend the liberties you and I enjoy.

And then taking a massive dump on them by supporting an open borders loser in Rubio.

262 posted on 03/04/2016 5:24:30 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (With Cruz You Get Rubio)
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To: LaRueLaDue

Clearly our troops should not be targeting specific non-combatants. I can’t believe you would defend that just to support your guy.


263 posted on 03/04/2016 6:05:49 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: LaRueLaDue

How is it a strawman. IT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.

No I’m not a lawyer. I was in the air force for 10 years.


264 posted on 03/04/2016 7:30:51 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: PLMerite

ROFL!!


265 posted on 03/04/2016 8:39:06 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

trump fan!!!???

why I ought to... :)

i’m for cruz until trump wins but I will defend trump where I think he is right.

i’m sure covert ops did much worse in past wars and I don’t care.

my family DOES mean more to me and if killing 10000 of them will stop a nuke from going off in NYC and killing everyone I love, then kill as many as need be.

the only enemy That DEFINITELY cant hurt you is a dead one.

and these families are’t innocent bystanders like American families.

they celebrate jihad and suicide deaths etc.


266 posted on 03/04/2016 8:43:41 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Jarhead9297

Of course, it has to be determined a lawful order....

If not, it’s discarded....

However, you are wrong about Congress, they have no part in this process....They neither clarify or interpret existing law or CIC orders, they simply pass new laws...

Judicial branch handles any disagreements that can’t be handled administratively in the military chain of command


267 posted on 03/05/2016 6:25:59 AM PST by nevergore
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To: CA Conservative

You mistake my point.

And you insult needlessly.


268 posted on 03/05/2016 6:37:05 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: facedown
Hope you are well.

iffy at best, but still drawing breath ... have you moved south yet?

269 posted on 03/05/2016 8:34:27 AM PST by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: TheRightGuy

No but the plan is by the end of the year.


270 posted on 03/05/2016 4:33:44 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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