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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe diversion begins.
According to a report on CNN (sorry don't have the link) the Pentagon is considering sending ground forces into Syria. The decision would be Drumpt's.
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The diversion begins. (Original Post)
kairos12
Feb 2017
OP
Starting a ground war WOULD divert attention from Trump's connection to Putin.
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#1
Ah-- This is why Ft Bragg troops have been training (nonstop) since inauguration day.
bathroommonkey76
Feb 2017
#4
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Starting a ground war WOULD divert attention from Trump's connection to Putin.
And the media would immediately talk of the need to support the President.
Reagan did it with Grenada.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)2. watch over there while we cut your healthcare
and trash your kid's schools and restrict voting rights and cut HUGE taxes for the wealthy and privatize Medicare and Social Security..........
NotThisTime
(3,657 posts)3. What could go wrong with that? Good god...
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)4. Ah-- This is why Ft Bragg troops have been training (nonstop) since inauguration day.
nt
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)5. I'm old enough to remember when Hillary was the scary warmonger
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)7. Where are the Bernie supporters, Stein and Johnson voters now?
Apologies to the Bernie supporters who saw the evil in Trump and voted for Hillary. Fuck the rest.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)6. I see him killing the refugees and claiming
them as casualties of war. Doing this would help solve them going anywhere else and he would claim he is helping other countries from taking on that burden. He would expect Trudeau to thank him....something like that.