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@#2 ... Didn't ------- say the war was going to end on election day and gas prices would drop like a rock? ...
Now Pres Trump seems to be saying that the status quo is OK, and he is moving on to other things...
Trump says "we don't need a deal with Iran," tells Vance to focus on alleged Democratic corruption
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... President Trump told Vice President JD Vance on Thursday to shift his focus away from the Iran war and instead devote himself to fighting what the president claims is corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states.
Vance, who served as the lead negotiator for a short-lived truce in the eight-month war, has been blunt in blaming the conflict -- and the economic reverberations it has caused -- for Republicans' sweeping losses in last week's midterm elections in the United States.
But Mr. Trump brusquely told Vance, in a social media post, to shift his energies away from the Iran war to what he argues is a more pressing -- and perhaps more politically salient -- issue after Republicans were trounced at the polls.
"We don't need a deal with Iran," Mr. Trump said in the post. "Those days have long since passed. We've got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we've got their Strait!"
Mr. Trump earlier this week said he believed the war "militarily is effectively over," and appeared to double down on that message by pointedly directing Vance "to focus his complete and total attention" on his anti-fraud campaign. ...
OK, I have posted one rock artist who seems to have more respect for veterans than the Sec of Stage-Prancing Hegseth seems to have.
Here's another rock artist who, in this song takes an imaginary turn, but still expresses respect for a Marine.
Stan Ridgway - Camouflage (1986)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
I was a PFC on a search patrol huntin' Charlie down
It was in the jungle wars of '65
My weapon jammed and I got stuck way out and all alone
And I could hear the enemy movin' in close outside
Just then I heard a twig snap and I grabbed my empty gun
And I dug in scared while I counted down my fate
And then a big marine, a giant with a pair of friendly eyes
Appeared there at my shoulder and said wait
When he came in close beside me he said
"Don't worry, son, I'm here
If Charlie wants to tangle now he'll have two to dodge."
I said, "Well thanks a lot."
I told him my name and asked him his
And he said, "The boys just call me Camouflage."
[Chorus]
Whoa Camouflage
Things are never quite the way they seem
Whoa Camoufalge
I was awfully glad to see this big marine
[Verse 2]
Well I was gonna ask him where he came from
When we heard the bullets fly
Coming through the brush
And all around our ears
It was then I saw this big Marine light a fire in his eye
And it was strange but suddenly I forgot my fears
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Verse 5]
And I knew there was something weird about him
Cause when I turned around he was pullin' a big palm tree
Right up out of the ground
And swattin' those Charlies with it from here to Kingdom Come
When he led me out of danger
I saw my camp and waved goodbye
He just winked at me from the jungle and then was gone
And when I got back to my HQ, I told 'em about my night
And the battle I'd spent with a big marine named Camouflage
[Verse 6]
When I said his name a soldier gulped
And a medic took my arm
And led me to a green tent on the right
He said, "You may be tellin' the truth boy
But this here is Camouflage
And he's been right here since he passed away last night."
In fact, he's been here all week long
But before he went he said, "Semper Fi,"
And said his only wish
Was to save a young marine caught in a barrage
So here, take his dog tag, son
I know he'd want you to have it now."
And we both said a prayer for a big marine named Camouflage
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Top intel Dem unsure if Alice Huang is a Chinese spy or useful idiot' after classified briefing
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... Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the likely incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is unsure whether a business executive who cultivated close ties with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is a Chinese spy, based on information he received from U.S. intelligence officials in a classified briefing earlier this week.
In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday, Himes told POLITICO he left the briefing given by heads of U.S. intelligence agencies to top lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees without clarity on whether Alice Huang knowingly cultivated information for the Chinese government on the $4 trillion U.S. chip company, or was a "useful idiot" unaware of China's wider espionage activities.
"What's the relationship with Alice Huang and the Chinese, and what do we know about what influence or information was traded? Because today, at least, I don't know," he said.
He noted that the classified briefing touched on multiple subjects, including the Nvidia CEO's relationship with Huang, who is associated with Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. ...
Oh, this looks to be a growing issue for the Trump admin ...
'Answer in front of God and country': GOP turns on Lutnick over chips
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... The blast radius from Nvidia's espionage scandal is now spreading to the Commerce Department, potentially setting up Secretary Howard Lutnick or other agency leaders to be the Trump administration's scapegoats.
Recent reports that the Commerce Department failed to take action on Megaspeed, the Singapore-based firm at the center of the spying and chip-smuggling allegations, have intensified scrutiny of the agency's decisions to allow more foreign chip sales, particularly of Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips. Over the past 24 hours, more than half a dozen Republicans have demanded answers -- and potentially congressional testimony -- from Lutnick and top deputies over whether they put private tech interests above national security.
"The obvious question is why did he choose to sell advanced chips?," Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said in an interview Wednesday. "Secretary Lutnick needs to answer that in front of God and country. If I were he, I'd call a press conference this afternoon and explain what happened and why he agreed to sell em chips, and I would stop doing it."
"I mean, there will be a congressional investigation," Kennedy added. "But I don't think he ought to wait on Congress."
Kennedy and other prominent Republicans are calling for Lutnick to explain the agency's lack of action to block Megaspeed from buying advanced chips, despite U.S. intelligence warnings that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was having an affair with a Megaspeed executive suspected of being a Chinese asset. ...
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