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Phil Stewart ✔@phildstewart
BREAKING-Trump says the military should consider disciplining former White House National Security Council aide Alexander Vindman, who provided some of the most damaging testimony during the House impeachment probe, He was ousted from his White House job last week.
4:51 PM - Feb 11, 2020
This, too is frightening. Vindman did nothing wrong.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)And why is the media giving Trump a pass as usual?
handmade34
(22,757 posts)we need to act... something, somehow
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Well know for sure, just like we know for sure that the Senate is rotting with corruption.
ZenDem
(442 posts)Reward the war criminals, publicly humiliate and disrespect their superiors and then persecute the genuine patriots.
You suck...at everything.
Vindman will be remembered throughout history as an honorable and courageous man. Trump? Not.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)spanone
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FULL-ON DICTATOR
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)consists of. Sarcasm.
shanti
(21,675 posts)He won't be happy until Vindman is in the brig, with stripes removed.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)My dad was career Navy while I did 3 years in the Army. It was interesting comparing the different terminology between the two branches of military service.
shanti
(21,675 posts)But you got the gist of it. My dad was also career military, 20 years with the Air Force. I'm not sure what they call jail.
BTW, to another military brat! Did you live overseas? Dad did 4 years in Japan.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)Always in the states but we did move a bit the first nine years of my life.
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)tRUMP will EVER be!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...then the nation really is lost.
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)EndlessWire
(6,565 posts)He was loyal to the Constitution, not Trump. That's what he did wrong.
Hitler changed the oath to an oath that pledged allegiance *to Hitler.* Watch for that.
The Military services are watching all this: war crimes are forgiven while stripes are taken, calling the brass "dopers and babies," and threatening those who answered a Congressional subpoena and told the truth. He turned his back on the Kurds, saluted NK brass... etc. Oh, I almost forgot his love affair with Little Kim.
He is only one man. He can't complete his grand plan without their loyalty. Yes, they follow orders, but at the top, who would have to be the ones to make a move, is he really sure that they respect him enough to do his bidding? He treats them with utter disrespect.
Call him out on 25A. I don't think that will fly, but it would have other uses...
I'm afraid that he will start purging anyone in the military who refuses to discipline Vindman. That's what he did during the war crimes saga: he punished the people above.
Are there no Republicans with ties to the military? How can they bear this?
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Oath of Allegiance - Pre and post 1934
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-fuehrer-oath
(before August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will at all times loyally and honestly
serve my people and country
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."
The Fuehrer Oath
(effective August 2, 1934)
"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will render unconditional obedience
to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler,
Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht,
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... without Vindman shooting someone on 5th ave is going to be tainted for life ... even after discharge from service.
Very interesting to see how many sycophants we have in service now
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)If there is a military response, we are finished.