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http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/06/retired-army-general-just-gave-epic-response-trumps-military-parade-demand/A retired Army general just gave an epic response to Trumps military parade demand
By Peter Mellado
Published on February 6, 2018
American sensibilities were rocked Tuesday when the New York Times reported that White House and Pentagon officials had been ordered to plan a grand military parade for President Trump. Two sources told The Times that Trump met with top generals last month at the Pentagon, where they began to draw up the plans.
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After reading the New York Times report, retired Army Major General Paul D. Eaton released a scathing statement on VoteVets.org, and he didnt mince words.
For someone who just declared it was treasonous to not applaud him, and for someone who has, in the past, admired tactics of everyone from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin, it is clear that a military parade isnt about saluting the military its about making a display of the military saluting him.
The military is not Donald Trumps to use and abuse in this way, Eatons statement continues. Our military is the very best in the world they are not the be reduced to stagecraft to prop up Donald Trumps image.
Any commander in chief who respects the traditions of the military would understand that. Unfortunately, we do not have a commander in chief, right now, as much as we have a wannabe banana republic strongman.
You can read the entire state in its original format below.
Link to tweet
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)I wonder if anybody will read this letter to Cadet IQ45?
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)instead of a separate branch of government under them.
trusty elf
(7,401 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Ready to do battle in his own Vaginal Vietnam!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)Hats off !
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)He will probably have a big RED BUTTON leading the parade. When are people going to wake up and realize that the Republican Party is a Fascist Criminal Organization. Trump and his minions dream of the day that they can firmly establish a dictatorship. They will look for any pretense to declare marshal law and dissolve the legislature.
whathehell
(29,090 posts)Tell it like it IS brother!!! :
marble falls
(57,204 posts)Maggiemayhem
(811 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,239 posts)It is extremely bloated anyway, but this to too much, even for DoD.
Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)He will, of course, pay for the parade entirely with the Yuge surpluses from his as yet unaccounted for Inaugural Fund!
O ye of little faith.
Grins
(7,228 posts)And the hat!!
You know he's designing one. With the hat, epaulets, and narrow lapels to leave space for all his medals!
Medals he is, no doubt, also designing to award to himself: Order of the Bone Spur!, Legion of the Deferment (with 5-clusters), the 'Personal Vietnam' Victory medal for not getting a STD, The Ivanka (shaped like a "piece of ass)", Legion of Teen Dressing Rooms, the Purple Heart for Twitter Carpel Finger/Pussy Grabbing, Bronze Executive Time (with clusters), Porn-Star 'Service' Medal, (also with clusters - lots, and lots of clusters!), Order of the Divot, and the Medal of the Electoral College.
And so many more....
BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)magicarpet
(14,167 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Grins
(7,228 posts)pandr32
(11,611 posts)Grins
(7,228 posts)His head would fucking explode!
lastlib
(23,286 posts)The one in front of the tanks. Or some folks like him.
groundloop
(11,522 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)By the Russians. We were an economic and military power house. Now we are being reduced to the level of leadership of every stupid fascist and despot in history.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)And his limp, complacent party backs up his every foul deed.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)As a PR stunt, to display his power just like Putin and others do. HE also has given top classified information to the Russians and others undermining our military, and threatening their safety , sends them on missions like the failed one he banned Muslims then made others turn on our military causing some to die. He's no American doing everything he can to help Putin and the Russians, and his policies are the opposite of a show of patriotism, like not putting more sanctions on them , doing nothing to stop their election meddling. and a lot more. He's a crook and a traitor and has sold out this country to Putin.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)They will realize that the anti-Trump demonstration will be many times bigger than his Napoleonic military march and will not want the humiliation.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Just put footage of Trump's parade next to the parades for Kim Jong Un, Putin, and Hitler.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)stupid parade, absolutely nobody should attend. The crowd needs to be smaller than his inaugural parade. Empty stands with him sitting with nobody but his west wing staff. Can this shit get more bizarre?
lastlib
(23,286 posts)tavernier
(12,400 posts)He wants a parade, lets give him a parade!
To be All About Him, everyone must dress like him or one of his staff or followers. Looney Tunes band music all the way. Clowns and Kelley Conways and Monopoly billionaires and beribboned generals galore.
Hell be able to claim the biggest parade ever!!
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)A one-piece band: tuba.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)see the similarity with North Korea, Russia and other dictatorships, and that will reinforce the urgency of dealing with the threat our country faces. They will realize it can longer be relegated to the idle chatter of progressives and needs the immediate attention of all Americans. Think it is callled the urgency of now.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)ALL spot on and excellent. Thank you for speaking out, General Eaton.
And thank you for posting this, Babylonsister.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,634 posts)gademocrat7
(10,667 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)The Pentagon is already making plans for the Parade! We can not even take care of our Vets, but they can pay for a Parade!
The one at the end of the Gulf war cost $8 Million.
When is Congress going to crack down on the millions being spent on the 2 year olds wants?
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)everyone holding up a sign that says Trump is a draft dodger and a coward.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)RainCaster
(10,914 posts)Two of them are in 45's cabinet, and those idiots are so offensive to me, that I want nothing to do with ANY general, retired or not.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Wouldn't the asphalt be destroyed with the weight and/or the grinding action of the tank tracks?
Grammy23
(5,813 posts)but was told the streets in DC were not made for the weight of cannons and tanks. The equipment would do exactly what you suggested-chew up the pavement.
This whole idea is just another of tRumps obsessions with being a dictator. He thinks the whole
experience will be made to order for him. Ironic when you consider how hard he tried to avoid the draft back when he could have been in the military had he been so hot to trot for the troops. He is the worlds biggest hypocrite, just like his Christian credentials he tries to wave around from time to time. All fake and all for show.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)So much winning!
SargeXXX
(48 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Trump's base, so to speak, approve of these antics.
Are they all on drugs? Are these the pod people?
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)I will definitely share this.