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James48

(4,598 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 03:59 AM Oct 2017

Trump stages NFL protest while ignoring 4 dead Special Forces

Op-Ed: Trump admin stages NFL protest while ignoring 4 dead Special Forces soldiers in Niger

Derek Gannon | 10.09.2017 39 Comments

It was two days after America was still coming to grips with the carnage that was displayed in Las Vegas after a madman holed himself up in a 32nd floor hotel suite of the Mandalay Bay casino and resort. Where the killer, Stephen Paddock constructed some sort of makeshift machine gun nest overlooking a country music festival then smashed two windows and rained down a hail of gunfire on unsuspecting concert-goers killing 58 and maiming upwards of 540.

A stunned America had no idea that a small group of U.S. Army Special Forces Green Berets along with their Nigerien counterparts were coming back from a mission in the southwestern region of Niger on that Wednesday when they were ambushed by an enemy force of 50 or more from what is a new wing of the Islamic State called The Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISIS-GS). The joint Green Beret team was met with withering machine gun and small-arms fire and immediately began to take casualties. Nigeriens took what was reported to SOFREP as heavy casualties and in the midst of all the chaos and were reported to have fled from the ambush leaving the Green Berets alone to fight off the attack.


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Trump stages NFL protest while ignoring 4 dead Special Forces (Original Post) James48 Oct 2017 OP
Fine Americans warriors TEB Oct 2017 #1
To him they're "Losers". Amimnoch Oct 2017 #3
He doesn't know what to do of how to act. Ilsa Oct 2017 #2
He gets fixated on something and can't let it go. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #5
Makes the whole respect the flag ejbr Oct 2017 #4
ejbr, you got it exactly right. Delmette2.0 Oct 2017 #7
4 dead... Military genius Trump... Time for GOP investigations like Benghazi? keithbvadu2 Oct 2017 #6
I'm guessing the human POS will be saying that it's Hillary's or Pres. Obama's fault ... LenaBaby61 Oct 2017 #8
 

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)
3. To him they're "Losers".
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:08 AM
Oct 2017

I'm sure he prefers to just honor special forces that don't get killed.


Ilsa

(62,241 posts)
2. He doesn't know what to do of how to act.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 04:51 AM
Oct 2017

Pathetic creature. Why hasn't Mattis or someone told him what to do?

ejbr

(5,869 posts)
4. Makes the whole respect the flag
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:38 AM
Oct 2017

drama empty and pointless if this tragedy can be ignored. His supporters will twist themselves up in knots defending this travesty

Delmette2.0

(4,262 posts)
7. ejbr, you got it exactly right.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:46 AM
Oct 2017

So little actual respect for our soldiers & sailors who have died and their families.

keithbvadu2

(40,133 posts)
6. 4 dead... Military genius Trump... Time for GOP investigations like Benghazi?
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:45 AM
Oct 2017

4 dead... Military genius Trump... Time for GOP investigations like Benghazi?

LenaBaby61

(6,991 posts)
8. I'm guessing the human POS will be saying that it's Hillary's or Pres. Obama's fault ...
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 06:06 AM
Oct 2017

That these 4 soldiers are dead. That's IF he says anything about them at all.

They're only HUMANS, no biggie


tRumputin has to work 24/7 to protect the flag ya know

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