Posted on 03/04/2016 9:25:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a former Air Force pilot who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said on Thursday that Donald Trump is openly advocating war crimes that would cause the soldiers who obeyed his orders to be jailed.
“If you’re a private in the field and your major or your colonel orders you to do something that is a war crime, you actually bear responsibility, you can’t say that the colonel made me do it,” said Kinzinger, who is supporting Marco Rubio. “What Donald Trump, as wanting to be president of the United States is advocating, is a war crime that would force every soldier that did, i.e. killed the relatives of terrorists, tortured regardless of whether it not it works, the things that he’s advocating would force all of these people in jail.”
Speaking on the Steve Cochran Show on Chicago radio, Kinzinger argued that Trump was either “all bluster” or comparable to Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
“Now, you have to do one of two things,” he said. “You either believe that Donald trump is all bluster which most people do but for some reason they like that, or you take him at his word in which case he is advocating, like what Benito Mussolini did, war crimes.”
Kinzinger also said that what Trump was calling for “makes me sick.”
“For the leading Republican presidential candidate to advocate war crimes, which he does openly, just advocates war crimes, doesn’t matter, makes me sick really,” he said. “Especially as somebody that’s defended the country. It’s just terrible.”
Later in the interview, Kinzinger said, “I can’t see myself supporting Donald Trump. I never say definitively because who knows in the future. But I have no intention of supporting Donald Trump.”
As for his preferred candidate, Rubio, Kinzinger said he felt “pretty good” about the Florida senator’s chances of winning his home state’s primary, but that “I’d definitely rather be in Trump’s position politically.”
You won’t get anywhere handing out lollypops to terrorists.
Like to see this guy answer questions in front of Senator Jeff Sessions about the orders he was issued by Obama, and who died because of them
So, this asshat wants illegals to run wild over this country and murder, rape and steal from us.
What a traitorous piece of garbage.
Post of the week.
What is he even talking about?
This guy is Illinois Rhino whos only purpose is to be the fscapegoat for “its the republicans fault”. Hes a useful tool.Hes allowed to be a republican in that democrat state.
How about you shut up and defend the territorial integrity of the United States for a change!
The guy is one of the biggest RINOs on earth. Nicer and better looking than McCain, but the same nonetheless.
said Kinzinger, who is supporting Marco Rubio
Well, at least that wouldn't be a war crime.
</rolling eyes>
OK now what did Trump say, that this guy said was advocating war crimes?
Kinzinger, a Rubio lollipop.
non uniformed combatants have no rights. And when they hide among their families, or stash their weapons next to their children, it is they who have committed the war crime.
Trump is getting every little piss ant weasel to poke his head out of their hole and whistle.
Actually, Trump isn’t.
The Congressional Resolution of 2001, Sep 19, says that ANY who aids, abets, comforts, participates with ANYONE connected in any way to the terrorists of 9/11 is a legitimate target.
So, the faux outraged can go to hell.
They are ‘Trumped’ by Congressional Action!
He's become so enamored of the military ROE's where you can't shoot the enemy that he thinks our soldiers are supposed to be social workers. He's the kind of country club republican that makes me sick.
I tend to think it's just bluster, but it is frustrating as hell to have a candidate who is 90% bluster because it is very difficult to tell what he actually thinks/believes.
When some people suddenly start getting all concerned about THE LAW that’s when you KNOW they are most full of the purest crap.
“And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about them. You have to take out their families,”
-Donald Trump
I don’t care where you stand. That’s the promotion of a war crime.
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