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LIVE THREAD & STREAM: President Trump Addresses the Nation on Afghanistan 8/21/17-9 PM EST
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Posted on 08/21/2017 5:41:24 PM PDT by HokieMom



TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanwar; fortmyer; livetrumpspeech; raiderboyzotbait; third100days; trump; trumpafghanspeech; trumpcicspeech; trumpdod; trumpgwot; trumpspeech; usarmy
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To: kjam22

Your simple question is not Trump’s question.

His question to the generals is can we destroy enough of the Taliban and make the Afghan government and military strong enough to take over most of the hunting and killing, so we can just remain in support of them.

I think the generals think - with the cuffs off - they can.

I have my doubts, but I am hoping my doubts have more ignorance in the matters that count than the generals have. Hope, I say; not assurance.


501 posted on 08/21/2017 9:41:26 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
You're quite the little snowflake, aren't ya n00b!

It's WAR, and in all wars, people get killed.

Maybe every American should have just stayed home, and continued on...after the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor...do you agree about that?

Do you know ANY factual world history, or did "history" only begin when you first began to know what was going on around you?

502 posted on 08/21/2017 9:44:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: QuigleyDU

You seem totally incapable of intellectual honesty.

16 years ... Yes, because the “war” was effected by two pansie-ass weak-minded presidents:

GWB, who coddled Islam as a “religion of peace” rather than calling it out for the hyper-aggressive, militant, expansionist, totalitarian political ideology that is truly is.

BHO, who cavorted with the enemy and committed outright treason - in knowingly supplying weapons to our enemy, setting ROE that tied our military’s hands, and giving our enemy political cover by which they obtained a stealth capability to continue their aggression with impunity against the U.S. and U.S. interests.

But you purposely choose to ignore those two very important circumstances in your so-called argument - which is why most of us question your intentions.


503 posted on 08/21/2017 9:45:17 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Oh stop clutching your pearls, calling for some smelling salts, and swooning on your fainting couch!


504 posted on 08/21/2017 9:46:26 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: JME_FAN

SPOT ON!


505 posted on 08/21/2017 9:47:38 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: map

I doubt that will shut him up - but thanks for posting it.


506 posted on 08/21/2017 9:51:42 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: JME_FAN

Check out Breitbart tonight. They are all over Trump. Not pretty.


507 posted on 08/21/2017 9:54:32 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: nopardons

nopardons I think I have been on this site long enough and have supported Trump 1000% through EVERYTHING, to be insulted by you is unacceptable I am entitled to have a different opinion, and I am also entitled to NOT agree with EVERYTHING that Trump does, I do NOT agree with Bannon leaving, and I DO NOT agree with this decision on Afghanistan, NOW I will go back to clutching my pearls as you put it!!!


508 posted on 08/21/2017 9:55:51 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: snarkytart

“Alrighty, then.
Whats the goal? How many have to be killed to call it a day and leave?
Understand the entire region pretty much has an unlimited amount of terrorists that can filter into Afghanistan.
I guess we stay forever.”

It is a daunting task and that is why President Trump is calling for Pakistan and India to step up to the plate and help out.

Question for you. What do you think will happen if we just pull out and bring everyone home?


509 posted on 08/21/2017 9:55:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: FreedomStar3028

You mean those “young soldiers” that VOLUNTEERED for military service? Oh, I forgot - the military is only supposed to be an endless supply of freebie federal college benefits.

Spare us the yanking heart strings, drama queen. Those young soldiers all knew, or should have known the risks of joining military service. After all, waging war is their PRIMARY purpose. But I guess that little detail is lost on you, and a few of the other “bright lights” posting here.


510 posted on 08/21/2017 9:57:15 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: mass55th

Nope do a google you will find it over and over...


511 posted on 08/21/2017 9:57:44 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump)
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To: proud American in Canada

he sounds like that fairly frequently. Seems like his sinuses get swollen. Sometimes you can see it on the sides of his nose.


512 posted on 08/21/2017 10:00:11 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: nopardons

I’m pretty up front about my thoughts.

I like to give kudos when deserved, and it struck me as a good thing you’re ability to do what you did.

Don’t forget. I think there are times when not forgetting is an important reason why continued interaction is more than the mere execution of it.

In marriage I think that is an important aspect of relations, overlooking disagreements to achieve something better for both parties in the long run.

Take care. I appreciate your post.


513 posted on 08/21/2017 10:03:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Exempting Trump and his team, our media and government have adopted the Zoolander management style.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Your CAPS do nothing but distract from your posts. Honestly, you use them so much it makes your posts almost uncommonly annoying.


514 posted on 08/21/2017 10:04:31 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: be-baw

I am Italian my caps are my waving my arms around when speaking as all Italians do sorry!!!


515 posted on 08/21/2017 10:07:02 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
Snowflake....you don't realize it, but you just proved my points, but did so making yourself look even MORE foolish than you already have done.

You haven't been here very long at all and if I had taken such emotional umbrage, at every post to me, that hasn't been even vaguely civil ( at least I posted civilly to you! ), I would have been carted off long, long, long, loooooooooooooooooooong ago!

Disagreeing is one thing; posting puerile, je jeune, uneducated garbage, is quite another!

I'm more than pissed off re Bannon ( though he has said that he hadn't planned on staying as long as he did AND yes, he really CAN do best being outside of the West Wing, than being inside it! ); however, I'm even MORE POed re someone I once knew, who quietly left and whom the vast majority, here don't even know has left. Throw in the person rumored to be made an ambassador ( whom I knew VERY well ! ), and if THAT is true, I'll be screaming from here to kingdom come; and with damned good reasons...NOT, like you, from emotion!

Stop imagining that YOU know even 1/100th enough to take me on and please, please, PLEASE grow up!

516 posted on 08/21/2017 10:07:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: be-baw

No matter of how much I have sometimes agreed with Breitbart, since the death of their founder I have found them to present very little that is original to them.

They agglomerate news from all kinds of other sources (like Free Republic does), then they cut and past snips of those reports into their own “reporting” on the reports from other sources, sometimes at least identifying and linking those sources, though not always, and sometimes editorializing their own slant into the whole, as much as the New York Times does.

If Bannon is going to now turn Breitbart into HIS personal political sore losers venue, he is going to hurt himself and Breitbart.

I am not at this point saying that’s the case, but I’m suspecting I might be part right.


517 posted on 08/21/2017 10:08:08 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: raiderboy
I want the Wall, not this.

Oh, boohoo. What makes you think we can't do both? President Trump isn't that feckless fool Obama.

518 posted on 08/21/2017 10:09:26 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: kjam22

Glad you were not around during WWII - because you would have likely argued the same way about the AXIS powers. “Why be there? Are we going to be able to kill all the Nazis? Are we going to be able to kill every Japanese soldier on those islands?” Oh, and I’d be willing to wager you’d also have argued against us dropping the Atomic bombs as well.


519 posted on 08/21/2017 10:11:05 PM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: DoughtyOne
Yes, in that respect and others, as well, we are quite similar. Perhaps that's why we have been "friends" ( even with ups and downs ) for such a long time.

It's part of being an ADULT, which, sadly, appears to be something that is dying out....as many remain and maintain the worst of childhood traits well into their maturity now.

Same to you...as ever....!

520 posted on 08/21/2017 10:16:06 PM PDT by nopardons
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