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liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:01 AM Mar 2017

Why isn't anyone talking about Trumps civilian BLOODBATH?? 200 Civilians DEAD!



This is something I, and most of my fellow Democrats and Liberals, feel most strongly about. War is the most evil creation on this planet. It is the result of childishness and ignorance. Often times war begins because religious fanatics can't tolerate the very existence of people who believe differently than they do (This applies to fundamentalist Christians as well as any other group). War often begins because bloodthirsty warmongering politicians fear monger in order to gain enough support to create a conflict in another country. Sometimes war begins because a monstrous President has cozy connections to the oil industry and could help out his rich friends by starting a bloodbath in Iraq. Often times political debates revolve around which wars our military should or should not be involved in. Why don't we talk more often about how stupid the idea of war itself is. When you're little, you are told to communicate with your words and not violence. Why is foreign policy full of the exact opposite? War is often set up like some kind of sick sport. You have 2 teams and a divided playing field. Whoever wins gets some kind of reward. How stupid is it that foreign policy revolves around how many of the "others" we can kill? War creates an environment that makes it easy to ignore the finality of death. When deaths become nothing but a number, it makes it a lot easier to accept. These are lives! 200 innocent civilians have been killed by the Trump administration in Iraq. 200 human beings. Think about that. You, reading this right now are a human being. You have a life that I'm sure you value. 200 people who did nothing wrong lost their lives because of stupidity and ignorance. Some monsters, cowards have the gaul to celebrate this. War is hell. War is stupid.
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Why isn't anyone talking about Trumps civilian BLOODBATH?? 200 Civilians DEAD! (Original Post) liberalnarb Mar 2017 OP
If you pay for TV mikeysnot Mar 2017 #1
The channel the old radio in my restroom is set to is always bullshitting about how liberalnarb Mar 2017 #5
and they never explain why they believe that mikeysnot Mar 2017 #10
I agree get the red out Mar 2017 #2
Because many of us don't realize what the reverse is like had Fox gone after PBO ffr Mar 2017 #3
Reprehensible KingBob Mar 2017 #4
Yeesh. It may be true, but I have a negative reaction to that term liberalnarb Mar 2017 #6
War is a racket whether its Bush, Obama, or DT Dorn Mar 2017 #7
Literally a campaign promise. Trump talked about it all the time IronLionZion Mar 2017 #8
I think we all know why heaven05 Mar 2017 #9
we know why. niyad Mar 2017 #11
Fast track now to "Make America Hated Again" lambchopp59 Mar 2017 #12

mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)
1. If you pay for TV
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:06 AM
Mar 2017

either through satellite or cable, cancel your service and let your provider know why. I did a week after the election. When I hear Trump bounce for the Dow Jones. I was like fuck this shit. ripped my cable boxes out of my tv's and drove to the office to cancel.

I am now 500 dollars richer. and save 100 bucks a month.

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
5. The channel the old radio in my restroom is set to is always bullshitting about how
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:26 AM
Mar 2017

"businesses believe the tRump administration will be good for the American economy. Thanks to their business friendly policies." Thanks a lot a-holes!

mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)
10. and they never explain why they believe that
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 01:51 PM
Mar 2017

no examples, no proof, jut a catch phrase and a reassuring head bob.

ffr

(22,668 posts)
3. Because many of us don't realize what the reverse is like had Fox gone after PBO
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:19 AM
Mar 2017

Situation reversed, they'd be controlling the narrative of what a failed president we had. tRump is white and a republican and a nationalist, so he gets a lot of passes.

And you are right on the money. This is another one of tRump's disasters that'll haunt our nation.

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
6. Yeesh. It may be true, but I have a negative reaction to that term
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:28 AM
Mar 2017

my crazy right wing cousin called me that. Shes in the "abortion is murder no matter what!!!" camp. :eyeroll:

IronLionZion

(45,410 posts)
8. Literally a campaign promise. Trump talked about it all the time
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 12:42 PM
Mar 2017

Constantly going on about the need to kill children and women and how Obama was too soft for not killing enough civilians. He promised to do it and he's doing it. Who is going to stop him? General Mattis's response is that the Russians and others kill more. Racial hatred of the enemy's civilian population has always been a part of war and has made things only more complicated in areas where some of them are allied with us or good normal people but they look the same as terrorists.

Many Trumpers are gloating about this claiming this is the only way to show them the might of America and establish white supremacy again. Anyone who protests it is a triggered snowflake. They also argue that this is why we should keep women and minorities out of our military, so we can have people who are more comfortable committing mass murder making America great again.

Since the Coast Guard avoids killing people and actually saves lives, it's the one branch of our armed forces whose budget is getting Trumped.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
9. I think we all know why
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 01:10 PM
Mar 2017

but I won't bore with a rant of what I SEE as the truth....as to why these brown and non-christian, non-white civilian men, women and children are being slaughtered in Iraq, Syria et al.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
12. Fast track now to "Make America Hated Again"
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 02:19 PM
Mar 2017

The usual bag of Repuglican terrorism that could get us all long before we can vote out the deplorables. There hasn't been a day since Frump's inauguration that the news doesn't make me

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