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Parents of Fallen Soldier Blast Trump; Trump says 'I've sacrificed a lot, too"
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Topic Started: Jul 31 2016, 04:59 PM (130 Views)
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Jul 31 2016, 04:59 PM
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Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices'
Man, oh man, is this rich.
Here's the op-ed Ghazala Khan, the Mother, wrote:
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Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart.
Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq. He loved America, where we moved when he was 2 years old. He had volunteered to help his country, signing up for the ROTC at the University of Virginia. This was before the attack of Sept. 11, 2001. He didn’t have to do this, but he wanted to.
When Humayun was sent to Iraq, my husband and I worried about his safety. I had already been through one war, in Pakistan in 1965, when I was just a high school student. So I was very scared. You can sacrifice yourself, but you cannot take it that your kids will do this.
We asked if there was some way he could not go, because he had already done his service. He said it was his duty. I cannot forget when he was going to the plane, and he looked back at me. He was happy, and giving me strength: “Don’t worry, Mom. Everything will be all right.”
The last time I spoke to my son was on Mother’s Day 2004. We had asked him to call us collect whenever he could. I begged him to be safe. I asked him to stay back, and not to go running around trying to become a hero, because I knew he would do something like that.
He said, “Mom, these are my soldiers, these are my people. I have to take care of them.” He was killed by a car bomber outside the gates of his base. He died trying to save his soldiers and innocent civilians.
That is my son. Humayun was always dependable. If I was vacuuming the house and he was home, he would take the vacuum from my hand and clean the house. He volunteered to teach disabled children in the hospital how to swim. He said, “I love when they have a little bit of progress and their faces, they light up. At least they are that much happy.” He wanted to be a lawyer, like his father, to help people.
Humayun is my middle son, and the others are doing so well, but every day I feel the pain of his loss. It has been 12 years, but you know hearts of pain can never heal as long as we live. Just talking about it is hard for me all the time. Every day, whenever I pray, I have to pray for him, and I cry. The place that emptied will always be empty.
I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun. For all these years, I haven’t been able to clean the closet where his things are — I had to ask my daughter-in-law to do it. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?
Donald Trump said that maybe I wasn’t allowed to say anything. That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God’s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family.
When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant. If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion.
Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means.
Man, what a time to be alive. I never thought I'd live to see the day where a Republican nominee for President belittles the sacrifices that a soldier makes overseas, then blast the parents saying, basically, "Oh, I've made more sacrifices"
Damn, Donald, back at it again with the bullshit. If you've never lost a child, let alone a child overseas during war, you can't really imply that you've sacrificed "a lot, too"
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Jul 31 2016, 05:29 PM
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I totally agree with what Aex said, and I also want to link this post from a blog I read. The blogger is a former GOP stalwart (from WV, coal country) who changed his party affiliation in the early 2000s after voting for Dubya twice (I think - definitely at least once). It's a different perspective on how much things have changed, in terms of the political parties, in this Presidential campaign.
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Jul 31 2016, 06:54 PM
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I totally agree with what Aex said, and I also want to link this post from a blog I read. The blogger is a former GOP stalwart (from WV, coal country) who changed his party affiliation in the early 2000s after voting for Dubya twice (I think - definitely at least once). It's a different perspective on how much things have changed, in terms of the political parties, in this Presidential campaign. Bill "I wonder if I can fuck this balloon too"
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Jul 31 2016, 09:43 PM
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Initially I thought the Bloomberg speech was the most important at the convention, but this speech has really tripped Trump up. Huge kudos to the Democrats for really embracing and defending American Muslims. Particularly since they didn't have to, as they were pretty assured of their vote. But I feel like this could be a defining moment that could change a lot of peoples beliefs.
With 80% of Muslims voting for Bush and 60% voting for Obama, one wonders how the extreme the numbers will be in the next election.
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Aug 1 2016, 01:54 AM
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This 2005 profile of the Khans (after their son's death) is also worth reading.
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Seriously, Trump? Sometimes tweeting responses to everything is dumb, every kid knows that. So what next? You'll close embassies from traditional allies because they made a critical statement?
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Aug 1 2016, 04:32 AM
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Seriously, Trump? Sometimes tweeting responses to everything is dumb, every kid knows that. So what next? You'll close embassies from traditional allies because they made a critical statement? #AmericaFirst
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Aug 1 2016, 05:07 AM
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Seriously, Trump? Sometimes tweeting responses to everything is dumb, every kid knows that. So what next? You'll close embassies from traditional allies because they made a critical statement?
#AmericaFirst Can I just ask why Trump thought that was a good slogan? A slogan used by America's nazi party, during nazi germany, as an antisemitic reference point? It is one of the many stupid things, but while we are talking about that, let's just single this one out.
http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-usa/adl-urges-donald-trump-to-reconsider-america-first.html
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Aug 2 2016, 12:54 AM
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I find things through my RSS reader, and rather than just spamming Aex's Skype all the time, I'm posting some of them here.
Senator Clinton did something great for a constituent a few years ago (also highlights stuff that Planned Parenthood does that certain individuals don't want you to know about/think about)
VFW has condemned Trump/Trump's statements re: Khan family
Re: Republicans, they have a history of attacking Veterans with nonsensical attacks (BTW, for those that aren't aware, Tammy Duckworth is running for Senate in Illinois and is an Iraq War veteran and a double amputee due to combat wounds during her service.)
There's also a lot of great Trump-related topics trending, like: #FakeTrumpIntelligenceBriefing #TrumpDebateExcuses #TrumpSacrifices
This isn't my newspaper, but we could probably have some fun coming up with options along those lines ...
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Lastly, The Simpsons have a great parody of a 2016 variant of Hillary's "3am Commercial" that she ran in 2008 when running against Obama.
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Aug 4 2016, 02:23 PM
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Account from Captain Khan's Commander in Iraq
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Aug 5 2016, 10:01 PM
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The recent polls show us how voters feel about this incident and all the other dumb things he's done this past week. I know polls are typically unreliable during this time but alarm bells should be going off in Trump HQ right now because some of the poll results are really bad.
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