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2016 Postmortem

Persondem

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1. And here is something you can start pounding on

Reply to Persondem (Original post)

Thu Dec 8, 2016, 05:36 PM

Dec 2016

"The former Marine general tapped to become Donald Trump's secretary of defense has been hailed as an "iconoclastic thinker" and a "warrior monk," but a decorated ex–special operations officer recently remembered him another way: as the commander who, he said, left soldiers "to die" in Afghanistan."

The utter shit storm of incompetency that looks to be the Trump (swamp) cabinet. Time to start pounding the shit out of it. Here's the full story.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/men-left-die-gen-james-mattis-controversial-wartime/story?id=44018222

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