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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a former Army lieutenant colonel who lost both her legs in Iraq, ripped Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) Thursday for comments he made the day before that Democrats are "in love with terrorists."
"I'm not going to dignify that with a response. I left parts of my body in Iraq fighting terrorists. I don't need to justify myself to anyone," Duckworth said on "CNN Right Now."
Collins made the remark on Fox Business's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" Wednesday, in response to Democratic criticism of Trump's handling of the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
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"They mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families, who are the ones who suffered under Soleimani. That's a problem," Collins added.
"I'm disgusted. I would never, ever use Gold Star families, military men and women or their families as any pawn in any political game. Let me tell you something: This issue is about America's national security. It is not a partisan political issue," Duckworth said.
read:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/duckworth-slams-collinss-comments-i-left-parts-of-my-body-in-iraq-fighting-terrorists/ar-BBYNigm?li=BBnbcA1
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)rurallib
(62,448 posts)I love Duckworth. She backs down to no one.
BuffaloJackalope
(818 posts)"One day, our nations flag will drape my coffin, just as it did my Dads and will my husbands and brothers. I will always stand on these legs for the flag and anthem, but it was ALSO my honor to defend peoples right to free speech..... including those who choose to #TakeAKnee to express outrage at the glaring disparity in how Americans of different races are treated"
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Sen. Duckworth stands taller than Rep. Collins.
I notice, also, that Collins hides out with Fox to bad-mouth Democrats. Can't say that to the Senator's face, Doug?
Harker
(14,034 posts)Thanks.
Raster
(20,998 posts)calimary
(81,458 posts)She certainly does.
And where did he serve? (If at all?)
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Against Democrats. Then you can no longer have reasonable discussion with them, with their backdrop of weaponized disinformation against half the country.
joost5
(421 posts)maxrandb
(15,351 posts)Seriously, these vile fucksticks have been doing this shit since the accention of hate fucking radio 40 fucking years ago.
Democrats still pretend that we are playing by some antiquated rules of decorum.
Some Democrat has to take one for the team and beat the ever loving shit out of this Collins dipshit... and make sure the MSM cameras are live rolling at the time.
What Collins said was nothing less than fucking terrorism.
He needs to get his snotty ass beat live on fucking breaking news.
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calimary
(81,458 posts)like Collins to positions of power and influence?
He didnt get to Congress by walkin.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)That is all.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Gianforte and Daines...horrid people. We shouldnt be ashamed, however...we didnt vote for those heathens...lets be motivated and outspoken! Fuck those assholes. GOTV in 2020.
MRDAWG
(501 posts)He is scum.
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)I agree that he's scum. If I could think of a much worse epithet, I'd use it, too.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)school, and some obscure seminary. Reminds me of archracist Neil Boortz.
What a shameful representative of my home state.
I wish we could rid ourselves of him, but it won't happen until north GA changes.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)What have you ever sacrificed for America?
Another rich prick, eh?
USMC Vet 73 - 78
Up yours you disrespectful fuck!
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Did the Khan family support terrorists? You remember, the family who lost their son, captain, US Army, in Iraq, the family Moron trashed because they supported Hillary Clinton?
USAF. 62 to 82
Get bent, scum (edited for language)
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Collins' leader attacked the Gold Star family, and keeps helping the ISIS and al Qaeda terrorists.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Another blast from the past: Moron doesn't like people who get captured - a shot at John McCain, Captain, USN (Ret) and POW.
I don't have a list; I have a file drawer full of Moron's "love of armed service personnel".
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Rump and his flunkies inflicted on her during the 'condolence' call.
He knows better than the generals, is better trained than the troops. It's almost like he was in the military, coz he went to a military themed academy. Turned over VA control to his Mar a Lago shadow cabinet.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)a cosplay juvie hall for punks their rich daddies don't want to deal with.
This former TI would like to have had that creep on the drill pad for 10 minutes. I'd have him on the concrete in the fetal position. It's a dream I have.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I'm sorry he missed out on serving in Nam.
But I'll bet people who would have had to serve with him aren't sorry he wasn't there.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)He'd either fuck up a combat mission and get people killed or fucked up paper work at Hq Tan Son which the victims are still trying to unravel. Off duty time, he'd be working illegals deals at the local knocking shops and bars.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 11, 2020, 09:01 AM - Edit history (1)
I'm also sure you're right, he'd have run a prostitution ring. It's in his genes.
Great sex trafficking genes, he has.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)It's a family tradition.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)He has never deviated from it, not even once. The secret of his 'success'.
That's one chain migrating family Ice should send back. Rump can be divided in 2, half can go to Germany, half to Scotland.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Trump's 'deals' would put naive two striper noobs in the deep kimchi or minimum Art 15 kimchi and the creep would laugh about it at the O-Club. "Losers!"
Germany and Scotland don't deserve that. I'm thinking land fill.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)In the late 1980s, Collins served two years in the United States Navy, as a navy chaplain. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Collins joined the United States Air Force Reserve Command, where he presently serves as a chaplain (lieutenant colonel).[7] As a member of the 94th Airlift Wing at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, Collins was deployed to Balad Air Base for five months in 2008, during the Iraq War.
I'm astonished he has any military background at all, because the sort of Republican scumbag who would talk that kind of shit is a sniveling chickenhawk nine times out of ten. Oh, but hey, a chaplain pulling five whole months in the Sunni Triangle! Daaamn, bruh, thank you for your "service!"
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Has he ever had to worry about being shot In those jobs?
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)For life.
Captain Zero
(6,823 posts)He is a DOUBLE DIPPER. PIGGY. PIGGY. SNORT.
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)Is a laugh, check out the credentials of the law school he attended........
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)den leader does that more than anyone.
Stupid asshole.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)shot her down right and left. It was very enjoyable and we did not end up in a fight.
I told her Biden is going to blow dump out in a landslide and she didn't seem too upset about that.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)oasis
(49,406 posts)ck4829
(35,090 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)"I saw him," Trump said of the speech. " Mr. Khan) was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife
if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say."
"She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me," Trump continued. "But a plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet, and it looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that."
Notice his trademark weaseling "probably looked like a nice guy to me" and "You tell me" and "plenty of people"
and " A lot of people". Taking no responsibility , the vague "people" / "A lot of people".
(Taken from Washington Post, unable to copy link)
Yet another link to the Khan/Trump incident:
https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/30/politics/donald-trump-khizr-kahn-response/index.html
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Lord I hate him and his fast talking lies.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Is a big time jerkoff.
sheshe2
(83,889 posts)Go Tammy.
AllyCat
(16,220 posts)they would work harder to not make new ones.