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How very Trumpian. GFY, Barr. 🖕
marble falls
(57,063 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 8, 2019, 03:00 PM - Edit history (2)
particularly since my father-in-law actually DID parachute into Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
He is discussed in the book, "Blocking Kamphergruppe Peiper' by Frank Van Luntern about the Battle Bulge. His name is Harry Frear and he's mentioned on pages 32, 83, 85, 191 and 222.
And he was in Operation: Market Garden four months later after D-Day.
He started out a PFC and was a First Lieutenant by this point and was a major by the time he got to Korea. My mother-in-law threatened to leave him if he went to Viet Nam.
He earned a purple heart, two bronze stars and a silver star during his service. I bet Barr has had nothing worse than a paper cut or a jammed copier. Harry Frear had a Thompson sub-machine gun shot out of his hands and he picked up a German weapon and kept shooting.
Page 191 cites his silver star award, including his loss of his Thomson, and talks about his taking point and fighting in waist deep snow. Does Barr even shovel snow???
It pisses me off to hear these chicken hawks trivialize other people's service.
I'm a geezer now, don't let me get started.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Jump NOW!
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)He is a Nazi Opus Dei trDump Fascist Fanboy.
Wounded Bear
(58,626 posts)the morning of Jun 6.
Me.
(35,454 posts)jpak
(41,757 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,729 posts)Ilsa
(61,691 posts)He's overestimated his worth to the USA.
Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)I'm certain it was not.
WhiteTara
(29,699 posts)on the U.S. Constitution; but no, he chose and he chose poorly.
MBS
(9,688 posts)tanyev
(42,541 posts)I dont understand how the MAGAts can hear this kind of crap and not find it offensive. I guess thats their personal Vietnam.
trev
(1,480 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,853 posts)Barr needs to take Saint-Mere-Eglese outta his mouth.
uponit7771
(90,329 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,859 posts)Dunno about other agencies.
Bill Barr: The "Cover-Up General"
"At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"
by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agencys Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Universitys roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agencys legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican, he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for and got Bushs backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
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MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Or maybe as they say about most politicos/lobbyists being just like pigeons ::
1. they fly in like they own the place
2. they sh*t all over everything/everyone
3. they fly out in a mad scramble dash
4. they leave cleaning up the sh*t to everybody else.