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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaurence Tribe: Trump said, "In the fields and jungles of Vietnam, they delivered a swift...
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Text: Laurence Tribe: Trump said, In the fields and jungles of Vietnam, they delivered a swift and swiffian, It was swift and it was sweeping like nobodys ever seen happen. A victory in Operation Desert Storm, a lot of you were involved in that. A lot of you were involved. That was a quick one. OMG
Botany
(70,664 posts)" ... it was sweeping like nobodys ever seen happen."
3Hotdogs
(12,469 posts)"But we would'a won it bigly, if I could'a got rid of my bone spur and took up a rifle. I'm gonna tell 'em that in Jacksonville next month."
Botany
(70,664 posts)But then again I am an optimist.
BTW isn't Saigon now Ho Chi Minh City? How could any vet ever vote for that man?
keithbvadu2
(37,052 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,668 posts)So far.
Botany
(70,664 posts)zero deaths
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)dem4decades
(11,322 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)agingdem
(7,875 posts)...nearly 10 years and almost 60,000 lost American soldiers...very swift
dware
(12,543 posts)the Vietnam War was, not just John Kerry.
tavernier
(12,429 posts)dware
(12,543 posts)I didn't catch the inference, but now that you mention it, I think that's correct.
Pachamama
(16,888 posts)The stream of thoughts coming out of Trump are getting very scary....I fear more what he is capable of doing acting on whatever the f-ck those thoughts are....
agingdem
(7,875 posts)in Princess Bride.. garbled mush-mouth verbal diarrhea
leftieNanner
(15,207 posts)Scary thread - but thanks for the chuckle.
sop
(10,302 posts)Ohiya
(2,253 posts)bullimiami
(13,114 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)Phu Quoc, Vietnam
spooky3
(34,531 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)In the JUNGLES of Vietnam! Damn what a fighting force!!
Baitball Blogger
(46,785 posts)Like, "I walked in a desert with a horse with no name, it felt good to be out of the rain."
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,040 posts)or whatever.
dware
(12,543 posts)I served two tours in Vietnam and fought in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, funny thing is, I don't remember those being the same combat zone.
Y'all know the old saying, it's better to keep quiet and let people think you're an imbecile rather than to open your mouth and confirm you're an imbecile.
The Mango Menace confirms every minute that he's a flaming imbecile.
tavernier
(12,429 posts)Your service and intelligence and humor make you a million times more qualified to be our president.
Although I wouldn't want that job at all, I'll just stick to driving my truck.
Have a joyous and peaceful Sunday.
tavernier
(12,429 posts)Ill buy you a beer or a rum drink! I lost some classmates in Vietnam and still have pain when I hear the name of that war.
dware
(12,543 posts)I'll definitely take you up on your offer.
I too lost a lot of friends in that useless war.
Cheers on a beautiful Sunday.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)like facebook have shown.
mwb970
(11,375 posts)dware
(12,543 posts)PaulRevere08
(449 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Mossfern
(2,615 posts)entire quote on video?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)robbob
(3,545 posts)Given how angry our side gets when Fox News and the Rethugs take a quote out of context and twist the meaning, we sure seem to have no problem piling on and doing the same. There is enough to hate and mock about tRump; why go around making things up? The quote as presented in the op literally cuts a sentence off halfway through to make it appear that tRump is referring to Vietnam as a swift victory and confusing it with operation desert storm. Look, he stumbles over the word swiftly, and then tries to ad-lib his way out of it, which ends up making him sound like a drunken wedding guest trying to be funny, and there is plenty there to laugh at, but calling Vietnam a swift victory? He didnt do that, and lying and twisting words around is supposed to be something the other side does.
malaise
(269,336 posts)This was all the proof you needed
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,880 posts)lame54
(35,359 posts)The longer vid shows him listing different wars and he clumsily moves from Vietnam to Iraq
The short vid is misleading
Nature Man
(869 posts)for attacking Pearl Harbor?