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NowsTheTime

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Wed Mar 26, 2025, 11:58 AM Mar 26

Reflecting back to 2017, remember when severral of our Generals said this...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/generals-letter-state-department-budget-cuts/index.html

“The State Department, USAID, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps and other development agencies are critical to preventing conflict and reducing the need to put our men and women in uniform in harm’s way,” the generals wrote.

They went on to quote a 2013 remark by Defense Secretary James Mattis while commander of US Central Command: “If you don’t fully fund the State Department, then I need to buy more ammunition.”
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Reflecting back to 2017, remember when severral of our Generals said this... (Original Post) NowsTheTime Mar 26 OP
I remember Mattis saying this Redleg Mar 26 #1
And then healthcare services for the enlistees who survived their wounds... Justice matters. Mar 26 #2
I bet Putin approves Skittles Mar 26 #3

Redleg

(6,415 posts)
1. I remember Mattis saying this
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 01:11 PM
Mar 26

I give him credit for being competent. No wonder he was shit-canned by Trump.

Justice matters.

(8,225 posts)
2. And then healthcare services for the enlistees who survived their wounds...
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 02:58 PM
Mar 26

... services the oligarch class don't want to pay for...

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