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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile thousands of service members and civilians have been killed from Iraq to Afghanistan and Yemen, but no one demands an investigation of their deaths, even when they were the result of 'friendly fire.'

Any death is tragic and horrible, but this was a service member rather than a diplomatic security or CIA officer who was killed.  When you take the military oath, you take a different level of risk.[/quote]

I agree.  I have a son in the Army.  While I weep for this parent, and any parent who loses a child during a military operation, it is one of the risks.  Service members also die during training missions.  It is simply a risk of the job.  My son knows this, as do we, his parents.  It is a tough reality, and difficult. But, our son knew the risks when he chose this as his job and so did we.  
I don't think the "timing" of this mission has anything to do with any EO Trump issued.  It has everything to do with having darkness.  No full moon.  
The military evaluates every mission after the fact.  Training missions and actual missions.  Perhaps they need to share their evaluation with this grieving father.  [/quote]
And the fact that Trump wasn't even paying attention to the action as it unfolded is okay to you as a military parent? This isn't like WWII in which the president couldn't watch every single battle or engagement in real time. [/quote]

I don't believe every president has been present in the situation room for every military mission conducted in recent years.  It is not realistic.  No, as a military parent I would hope that the president has enough faith in those in command in the military to conduct missions to the best of their ability without been watched or monitored by the commander-in-chief constantly.  [/quote]
Trump supporters will literally excuse anything. [/quote]

The worst part is not the excuse.  It's the hypocrisy.  Remember how they hammered at Barack Obama for not being in the situation room?[/quote]

+1. But Obama was sleeping while men were dying in Benghazi!!!!![/quote]

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