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1 of 1- Just Fred
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Sounds Like McCain has had Enough
President Donald Trump[/url] has started another war of words with Arizona Sen. [url=]John McCain over whether a recent raid in Yemen — in which a Navy SEAL and a number of civilians, including women and children, were killed — was a success.
McCain, the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told NBC on Wednesday that when a mission leads to the loss of life, "I don't believe you can call it a success."
"My understanding of the parameters of the raid were that they wanted to capture individuals, and obviously they didn't want to kill children or women,” McCain said.
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- TheLagerLad
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Re: Sounds Like McCain has had Enough
The irony of Trump saying that you can't criticize the failure of a U.S. Military mission when he built a substantial part of his campaign around how much of a disaster the Iraq War was is truly stunning.
That said, with McCain having six years in front of him, I think he's going to have a lot of fun badgering Trump throughout his term.
I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
- tennyson
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Re: Sounds Like McCain has had Enough
Well, it certainly was NOT the success that they had planned for.
Your DO NOT send in a Seal team JUST to recover documents and the like. The mission was basically to capture Qassim al-Rimi the leader of AQAP.
It is rather disheartening that on the very first mission under Trump that the DOD decided to hide the fact of the real mission. It is NOT a good beginning.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"