Not really trying to get into a pissing contest, just defending the military from those who would attack it and try and discredit it and bring it down. I cannot understand how someone can believe the military is stupid enough to shoot down a U.S. civilian airliner, evil enough to cover it up, and yet honorable enough in the war in Iraq. It's the same military in both situations, and if you believe they shot down and covered up TWA 800 then I assume you believe that they're out there murdering civilians and committing atrocities in Iraq.
And a DDG is a guided missile equipped destroyer. An FFG is a guided missile equipped frigate. The same kind of ships you think shot down the airliner.
Demanding to know my military background, for what, to compare it to yours, and throwing around acronyms that most people don’t know, for what, to compare with my acronyms, sounds like begging for a pissing contest. By the way, why don’t you put all of this good stuff about your military background in your profile?
just defending the military from those who would attack it and try and discredit it and bring it down.
You can’t really believe that I am trying to bring down the military?
I cannot understand how someone can believe the military is stupid enough to shoot down a U.S. civilian airliner,
No one is accusing the military of stupidity. No one is accusing the military of targeting TWA 800. Sanders is saying that the military was targeting a terrorist-operated airplane that was threatening TWA 800. Mistakes and collateral damage are a fact of life, even when you think you have a clean shot. What about the Iranian airbus that the US Navy shot down during the Gulf War.
Also, under the right circumstances, the US military would target a US civilian airliner as they certainly would have done on 9/11.
evil enough to cover it up,
No one is saying the military is evil. Sanders, and those who believe his theory, accuse the Clinton administration of the cover up, not the military.
if you believe they shot down and covered up TWA 800 then I assume you believe that they're out there murdering civilians and committing atrocities in Iraq.
You are over the top. How does anything I have said in this thread lead you to infer that I believe the military is committing murder and atrocities in Iraq? Now, that is a non-sequitur.