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senseandsensibility

(24,719 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:51 PM 13 hrs ago

Ruben Gallego, Iraq War veteran sums it up very well:

"Draft dodger is willing to sacrifice working class kids. How charitable of him."

Really. Trump's comments about possible casualties are beyond the pale and should be called out by all Dems. His patronizing, dismissive comments that deaths "often happen in war", so deal with it, basically, are beyond the pale.
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Ruben Gallego, Iraq War veteran sums it up very well: (Original Post) senseandsensibility 13 hrs ago OP
What happened to one of ours all of yours... lame54 13 hrs ago #1
Not everyone worries about dying in war. Norrrm 12 hrs ago #2

Norrrm

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2. Not everyone worries about dying in war.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 03:33 PM
12 hrs ago

Tom DeLay and Dan Quayle military service

He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/05/what_did_you_do_in_the_war_hammer.html

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