RE: Drumpfuck Does Not Know
August 2, 2016 at 1:45 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2016 at 1:48 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 1, 2016 at 4:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Looks like you needn't worry about Drumpf doing the right thing. As always, he doubles-down on stupidity.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-ca...ntroversy/
Quote:Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill for backing in Khan controversy
Quote:U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated U.S. soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members.
Quote:Rob Wasinger, a onetime congressional candidate who has been working for the Trump camp on congressional outreach, sent an email to senior Senate aides saying, “We want to get several member statements out today on this, and would really appreciate your help.”
A similar appeal was made to Republicans in the House of Representatives, according to a senior aide.
Attached to the appeal were talking points lawmakers could use to try to tamp down the controversy growing since last week’s appearance at the Democratic convention by the Khans, the parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed by a bomb in Iraq 12 years ago.
So far, they seem to be saying "go fuck yourself."
Good for them. There's nothing wrong with criticizing veterans, but there's something very fucked-up about spitting on the grave of a guy who died in service to his country, his oath, and his company by trafficking in stereotypes about his family.
Here's the Wiki on Captain Humayun Khan:
Quote:Khan was born in the United Arab Emirates to Khizr and Ghazala Khan from the Pakhtunkhwa region in Pakistan located along the Durand Line. The Khan family moved to the United States when Humayun was two years old, and he was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. Humayun Khan was a Muslim. As a young child, Khan read extensively about Thomas Jefferson. In high school, he taught disabled children swimming. Khan graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in 1996, and the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in 2000. At U.Va., Khan joined the university's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Khan joined the United States Army and had planned on becoming a military lawyer. In the Army, Khan achieved the rank of captain.
In 2004, Khan was assigned to the Headquarters Company of the 201st Forward Support Battalion, 1st Infantry Division in Vilseck, Germany. Three to four months into his tour of duty in Iraq, on June 8 near Baqubah, Khan was inspecting a guard post when a suspicious taxicab began approaching too quickly. Ordering his subordinates away from the vehicle, Khan ran forward 10–15 steps and was killed by a suicide car bomb fitted with an improvised explosive device. The car detonated before it could reach the gates or the nearby mess hall where hundreds of soldiers were eating breakfast. The blast also killed the two occupants of the vehicle and two Iraqi bystanders. On June 15, Khan was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humayun_Khan_(soldier)
Captain Khan was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his actions that day.
