ZDA, volitve 2016 in politična ureditev

ohnowhy je 14. jun 2016 ob 09:21 izjavil:

Brexit teme ni?

Just a small warning, I’m about to go on a bit of a rant.

I rarely discuss politics on this platform, but yesterday, the Republican nominee for President said something that compels me to speak out.

I spent five years, from 2006-2011 as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army.

When I deployed to Iraq in 2009 I was made Non Commissioned Officer in Charge of Foreign Claims for the entirety of Western Baghdad.

That’s an area that covers roughly 5 million people. I was 21 years old and will admit, very much in over my head.

My job for a whole year was to assess damage to Iraqi citizen’s property, and person and compensate them monetarily.

So if a helicopter dropped a flare and burned a kid, or an MRAP ran into a generator or someone's goat while on patrol...

Or we killed someone in the line of fire, it was my job to make it right.

Affected citizens would make the drive from as far as Lebanon on a weekly basis to see if their claims had been adjudicated.

The job was tough, almost impossible, but it was the just thing to do and helped build a bridge of trust between us and the citizenry.

I basically spent a year of my life in an aluminum trailer, away from my friends and family enduring mortar attacks nearly every night.

There was always more to do, and the stack of files and faces never dwindled. I got half a day off every two weeks.

I had to look widows and orphans in the eye as tears ran down their cheeks telling me through an interpreter their heartbreaking stories.

Every mission out into the city carried with it tremendous risk, but we had a job to do, and forcibly put that out of our minds.

In the course of my job, I was entrusted with a lot of taxpayer money, all in American cash.

As a result, we instantly became a high value target for insurgents who wanted to relieve us of said cash at one of our weekly gatherings.

Yesterday, @realDonaldTrump, a man who never served in any capacity said this about me and my brethren that served in Iraq.

“How about bringing baskets of money — millions and millions of dollars — and handing it out?”

"I want to know who were the soldiers that had that job, because I think they’re living very well right now.”

I am living well right now - some student loan debt aside - but not because I pocketed the hard-earned taxpayer money that I was entrusted.

In my time overseas, the procedures that were put in place to prevent that from happening were frustratingly thorough.

The idea that Trump would call out the integrity of those who answered the call of service and deployed to a war zone is repellant.

For this reason, and many more, he’s proven that he’s someone with neither the temperament, nor the character, to be Commander in Chief.

Don’t believe him when he says he’s for Veterans. It's lip service entirely.

A very very young me with my interpreter out in Baghdad around 2010.

xxxul je 15. jun 2016 ob 19:06 izjavil:

Kjer je vojska in kjer je cash, je zelo hitro bogatejša vojska. Nema veze katere države, tko je že od pamtiveka. Lahko da kak specifičen osebek ni nič ukradu, ampak v vojski, v vojni, se krade...
Kr en random zadetek iz googla.
Je pa zanimiv tale odstavek :

She was responsible for checking personal items belonging to troops before they were sent back to the USA in containers.

ZaphodBB je 15. jun 2016 ob 20:14 izjavil:

BTW v postu prej konzervativci obtožujejo Obamo češ, da je z umikom iz Iraka ustvaril ISIS. To, da so nelegalno napadli suvereno državo in jo sesuli ter povzročili sosledje vseh kasnejših dogodkov pa je očitno popolnoma v redu.

Ne ni v redu. Ampak ni pa ravno dokazal, da je sposobnejši. "Yes we can" gor ali dol.

xxxul je 15. jun 2016 ob 23:31 izjavil:

Ne vem no, nekak se mi zdi neverjetno da je en NCO pokrival kompenzacijo škode za tako območje...

Drgač sm pa bolj cikal na to da če nekdo poda generalno izjavo "pri razdeljevanju denarja se je kradlo" - izjava enega od udeležencev da ni kradu ne postavi izjave na laž. Je pa jeba za Trumpa ker se je precej dobrikal veteranom.

dice7 je 17. jun 2016 ob 16:15 izjavil:

Ah, potem pa ne more bit ista entita. Tako kot nemcija in zahodna nemcija

Full Clip je 17. jun 2016 ob 15:29 izjavil:

Kaj berem da Trump namerno izgublja? Nekateri ste res čudni. Dejstvo je da je Obama sodeloval z ISIS-om in verjetno še vedno sodeluje. Šele po tistem napadu v Parizu je Obama začel razbijati ISIS ker druge možnosti ni imel. Nekateri vedno iščete neke teorije zarote...

Zheegec je 17. jun 2016 ob 16:34 izjavil:

Full Clip je 17. jun 2016 ob 15:29 izjavil:

Kaj berem da Trump namerno izgublja? Nekateri ste res čudni. Dejstvo je da je Obama sodeloval z ISIS-om in verjetno še vedno sodeluje. Šele po tistem napadu v Parizu je Obama začel razbijati ISIS ker druge možnosti ni imel. Nekateri vedno iščete neke teorije zarote...

Sodeloval kako? Če trdiš, da je deloval takole, potem bi rabil kakšne dokaze - Reagan & Mujahideen

Full Clip je 18. jun 2016 ob 17:39 izjavil:

Zheegec je 17. jun 2016 ob 16:34 izjavil:

Full Clip je 17. jun 2016 ob 15:29 izjavil:

Kaj berem da Trump namerno izgublja? Nekateri ste res čudni. Dejstvo je da je Obama sodeloval z ISIS-om in verjetno še vedno sodeluje. Šele po tistem napadu v Parizu je Obama začel razbijati ISIS ker druge možnosti ni imel. Nekateri vedno iščete neke teorije zarote...

Sodeloval kako? Če trdiš, da je deloval takole, potem bi rabil kakšne dokaze - Reagan & Mujahideen

Ne bodi neumen...

DarwiN je 19. jun 2016 ob 21:34 izjavil:

Tole bo zadnji žebelj v Trumpovo krsto, ko bo Elizabeth Warren uradno sprejela vlogo podpredsednice. In svet bo lažje zadihal. :P