QMany Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 That was quick. The perpetrator probably wasn't white. Link to comment
NM11046 Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 Funny how he "got all the facts" in a matter of hours from spain vs what he got from Virginia which took days. Prbably because of proximity to New Jersey. 3 Link to comment
zoogs Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Everything about the purposeful, now repeated Pershing lie is sad and disgusting. Brutality is not the way. Only the weak admire it. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/898258416807718912 2 Link to comment
LumberJackSker Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 General Kelly really has brought some professionalism to the trump white house. 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 I'm still trying to wake up a bit this morning, but doesn't the second tweet say opposite the first? Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 15 hours ago, dudeguyy said: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/898258416807718912 This is amazing. Gee I wonder where Trump is getting his impartial news? Full Story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40969475 Quote Historians and fact checkers say there is no truth to it. The myth, which has circulated online, refers to General John Pershing's actions during the US war in the Philippines in the early 1900s. He is said to have rounded up 50 terrorists and then ordered his men to shoot 49 of them, using bullets dipped in pig's blood. The survivor was told to go back and tell his people what happened. Pigs are considered ritually unclean in Islam, and in his tweet the president said the general's actions acted as a deterrent to further acts of terror. 1 Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Snopes has an extensive explanation of the background of this pigs/Islamic Terror myth: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp I liked these lines: Quote [...] the desire for simplistic solutions to complex problems has spawned several widely-circulated notions that seek to transform a fight against terrorism to the easily-manageable level of a horror film or a comic strip. One popular notion is the concept that a pig is to a Muslim as a crucifix is to a vampire: simply arm yourself with a porker, [...] [...] messages such as the ones quoted above could be considered as silly as Muslims’ proclaiming that a good way to throw the U.S. into disarray would be to “bomb” America with juicy steaks on Fridays, [...] 1 Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 IF General Pershing had ordered such a massacre, it would be considered a War Crime and he would be subject to prosecution. Trump is proffering a myth that is potentially highly damaging to the legacy of one of America's greatest Generals, all because someone's grandma forwarded an email. 4 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 And....once again... promoting America commit war crimes. He's such a peach. 2 Link to comment
commando Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 25 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: And....once again... promoting America commit war crimes. He's such a peach. what hate group was it that trump recently tried to deflect criticism from that was also guilty of war crimes? let me think and see if i can recall who that was...... Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Oy. More proof Trump only cares insofar as it translates to votes for himself. 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 He's a fraud and always has been. Link to comment
zoogs Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 The Arts Commission also resigned: No, wait, they were canceled, too: Link to comment
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