Political Quotes

“last Friday, public reports indicated that more than 2,500 marines stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County were now on their way to the Trump war in the Middle East, the Trump-Iran war. This is the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Portland, the USS Comstock, and the USS Boxer. Their voyage joins the amphibious assault force aboard the USS Tripoli, which also called San Diego home until last year. With great uncertainty, Californians are now being called upon to be the potential tip of the next spear in this war. The Marines' recruiting slogan, going back to their founding in 1775, is 'First to Fight,' and they continue to live up to that slogan and that ethos. They have been boots on the beaches of islands in the Pacific, the trenches of Europe, in the mountains of Afghanistan, in the sands of Iraq, in Syria, Africa, and theaters of American war everywhere, and for centuries. And that is just it--they are boots on the ground in times of war. So as thousands of men and women have been called up to mobilize around the world, what solace can we offer their families about what awaits them? What can we tell them about this so-called excursion, as the President refers to it, or, as he called it today--reluctant to use the word 'war' all of a sudden, he called it a military operation.”