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originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: projectvxn
Are you okay with the disrespect being shown here for a dead American solider?
Are you okay with the disrespect being shown here for the family of a dead American soldier?
originally posted by: Mictain
Are you pro or anti Trump or just reporting a story, I am just asking because I have made statements regarding using victims to further an agenda.
I think it is offensive to use a victim to push anti propaganda.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
I realize weak people have difficulty handling grief but somone should tell this guy he is dishonorong his dead son's service greatly.
It is likely due to leaks from Obama's left-behinds, particularly those Paki brothers in IT who tipped off the terrorists.
originally posted by: thesaneone
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: projectvxn
Are you okay with the disrespect being shown here for a dead American solider?
Are you okay with the disrespect being shown here for the family of a dead American soldier?
What disrespect?
Maybe I'm getting tired but I didn't see any disrespect.
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
I realize weak people have difficulty handling grief but somone should tell this guy he is dishonorong his dead son's service greatly.
It was a private transfer, as the family had requested. No media and no bystanders, except for some military dignitaries.
Owens’ father, Bill, had learned only a short time before the ceremony that Trump was coming. Owens was sitting with his wife, Marie, and other family members in the solemn, living room-like space where the loved ones of the fallen assemble before they are taken to the flight line.
“I’m sorry, I don’t want to see him,’’ Owens recalled telling the chaplain who informed him that Trump was on his way from Washington. “I told them I don’t want to meet the President.”
The trip was not on Trump's public schedule. A small group of journalists traveled with Trump on the condition that the visit was not reported in advance.
originally posted by: jellyrev
a reply to: buster2010
Vox Yemen raid
However, the article says, “Mr. Obama did not act because the Pentagon wanted to launch the attack on a moonless night and the next one would come after his term had ended.”
Colin Kahl, who was a security official in the Obama White House, called Spicer’s story “B.S.”
“I was there. … No specific raid was discussed. … The ‘moonless night’ thing is B.S.,” he told the Wall Street Journal, adding that the White House never signed off on that specific mission.
“Obama … believed this represented a significant escalation of U.S. involvement in Yemen, and therefore … thought the next administration should take a careful look and run a careful process,” he told the WSJ.
For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen — everything was missiles and drones — because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden we had to make this grand display?’’
In this case, the assault force of several dozen commandos, which also included elite soldiers from the United Arab Emirates, was jinxed from the start. Qaeda fighters were somehow tipped off to the stealthy advance toward the village — perhaps by the whine of American drones that local tribal leaders said were flying lower and louder than usual.
Through a communications intercept, the commandos knew that the mission had been somehow compromised, but pressed on toward their target roughly five miles from where they had been flown into the area. “They kind of knew they were screwed from the beginning,” one former SEAL Team 6 official said.
Raid in Yemen: Risky From the Start and Costly in the End
I find it equally offensive that people here keep calling these operators 'victims'. They aren't. Not every mission goes according to plan, not everyone makes it back every time.