• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    He has said that in the past. When talking about McCain, who was a downed Navy pilot that got captured. Why would they care now?

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Not just shot down & captured. He spent 5 1/2 years as a POW, enduring both torture & years of solitary confinement.

      While a POW his father was named commander of all US forces in Vietnam. The Vietnamese offered to release him then as a propaganda tool, but he refused.

      I’m sure President Bone-spurs would have jumped at such a chance to be released like that. Assuming he would have survived the solitary confinement & torture.

    • kingofras@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Because this is an active conflict he started, and his voters are on those carrier groups.

      Anyway, he may have died, so this may end up being JD & Marco’s problem

      • kunaltyagi@programming.dev
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        19 days ago

        I don’t think you understand the mindset of soldiers once they graduate from the academy. They eat a shit sandwich and they know it, but they’ll be the gordamn best shit eaters there are