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Message 2017114 - Posted: 29 Oct 2019, 12:54:23 UTC
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The United States has released a picture of the dog that was sent into the tunnel in al-Baghdad's hiding place - which led to the death of the terrorist leader. The dog was injured during the operation, but is now back in service, Donald Trump tweeted.
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A dog gotta do what a man gotta do:)

It was a dramatic story about how Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died as Donald Trump delivered to the world on Sunday. According to the president, al-Baghdadi is said to have "died like a coward". And he further described how the terror leader spent his last moments of life "in complete terror, total panic and fear". al-Baghdadi have rushed into a tunnel crying and screaming, Trump said.

But none of the high-ranking politicians and militants who were in the "situation room" and followed the real-time raid via a video stream can confirm Trump's descriptions.
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these two Americans are my heroes. I don't know and care if they are Dem. or Rep. dose not matter.

they both speak Russian and Ukrainian language fluently.



impeachment Of President trump
READ: Ukraine Expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's Opening Statement
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/774256868/read-ukraine-expert-lt-col-alexander-vindmans-opening-statement

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to testify today 29 October 2019

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By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
New York Times
Oct. 29, 2019
Updated 8:46 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Alexander S. Vindman and his twin brother, Yevgeny, were 3 years old when they fled Ukraine with their father and grandmother, Jewish refugees with only their suitcases and $750, hoping for a better life in the United States.
In the 40 years since, he has become a scholar, diplomat, decorated lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and Harvard-educated Ukraine expert on the White House National Security Council.
On Tuesday, his past and his present will converge, when he becomes the first sitting White House official to testify in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s dealings with the country of his birth.
The testimony of Colonel Vindman, 44, will mark one of the more riveting turns in an inquiry that has been full of them. He is planning to tell impeachment investigators that he “did not think it was proper” for Mr. Trump to push Ukraine’s leader to dig up dirt on his political rivals during a July phone call, and felt duty-bound to report the conversation to a White House lawyer, fearing that it jeopardized the country’s national security.
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WASHINGTON — Alexander S. Vindman and his twin brother, Yevgeny, were 3 years old when they fled Ukraine with their father and grandmother, Jewish refugees with only their suitcases and $750, hoping for a better life in the United States.

In the 40 years since, he has become a scholar, diplomat, decorated lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and Harvard-educated Ukraine expert on the White House National Security Council.

On Tuesday, his past and his present will converge, when he becomes the first sitting White House official to testify in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s dealings with the country of his birth.

The testimony of Colonel Vindman, 44, will mark one of the more riveting turns in an inquiry that has been full of them. He is planning to tell impeachment investigators that he “did not think it was proper” for Mr. Trump to push Ukraine’s leader to dig up dirt on his political rivals during a July phone call, and felt duty-bound to report the conversation to a White House lawyer, fearing that it jeopardized the country’s national security.

But more than that, Colonel Vindman’s testimony will offer a compelling immigrants’ tale and a glimpse into the story of twin brothers who have lived a singular American experience. From their days as little boys in matching short pants and blue caps, toddling around the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn — known as Little Odessa for its population of refugees from the former Soviet Union — and into adulthood, they have followed strikingly similar paths.

Like Alexander Vindman, Yevgeny is a lieutenant colonel in the Army. He also serves on Mr. Trump’s National Security Council, as a lawyer handling ethics issues.

When Alexander Vindman decided to alert a White House lawyer to his concerns about Mr. Trump’s July telephone call with the Ukrainian president, he turned to his twin, bringing him along as he reported the conversation to John A. Eisenberg, the top National Security Council lawyer.

The twins both married, and they have offices across from one another in the West Wing of the White House, according to Carol Kitman, a photographer who met the family when they were boys, chronicled their growing up and remains a close family friend.

“They say nothing,” Ms. Kitman said, when asked if the two had revealed their views about Mr. Trump. “They’re very smart and they’re very discreet.”

Along with their older brother, Leonid, the twins left Kiev with their father shortly after their mother died there. Their maternal grandmother came along to help care for them. The family sold its possessions to survive in Europe while waiting for visas to the United States.

“I think their father felt they would do better in the United States as Jews,” said Ms. Kitman, who recalls spotting the grandmother and the two boys, then known as Sanya and Genya, under the elevated train in Brooklyn. She spoke to the grandmother in Yiddish, she said, and returned the following day, aiming to do a book about their lives.

“Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my father worked multiple jobs to support us, all the while learning English at night,” Colonel Vindman plans to tell House lawmakers on Tuesday. “He stressed to us the importance of fully integrating into our adopted country. For many years, life was quite difficult. In spite of our challenging beginnings, my family worked to build its own American dream.”

Ms. Kitman’s website tells the story in pictures.

“Genya is always the smiling twin. Sanya is serious,” she wrote in the caption accompanying one image of them in their blue ball caps and short pants in 1980, the year after they arrived. A 1985 photograph of them with their grandmother on a boardwalk appeared in a documentary by the filmmaker Ken Burns, she wrote.

When they were 13, Ms. Kitman captured the Vindman twins in matching red shirts. When Colonel Vindman married, she photographed him and his bride under a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, that served as a huppah, or wedding canopy.

The twins’ father, Semyon Vindman, went on to become an engineer, Ms. Kitman said, and the twins’ older brother entered the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in college. She said the younger boys looked up to Leonid and decided to pursue their own military paths.

In 1998, Alexander Vindman graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his military commission from Cornell University, completed basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1999, and deployed to South Korea, where he led infantry and anti-armor platoons, the following year.

In his testimony, the colonel plans to mention his “multiple overseas tours,” including in South Korea and Germany, and a 2003 combat deployment to Iraq that left him wounded by a roadside bomb, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart.

Since 2008, he has been an Army foreign area officer — an expert in political-military operations — specializing in Eurasia. Colonel Vindman has a master’s degree from Harvard in Russian, Eastern Europe and Central Asian Studies. He has served in the United States’ embassies in Kiev, Ukraine, and in Moscow, and was the officer specializing in Russia for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before joining the National Security Council in 2018.

By this spring, he said in his prepared opening statement, he became troubled by what he described as efforts by “outside influencers” to create “a false narrative” about Ukraine. Documents reviewed by The New York Times suggest the reference is to Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, and his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and implicate Ukraine, rather than Russia, in interfering with the 2016 elections.

In May, a month after Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine in a landslide victory, Mr. Trump asked the colonel to join Energy Secretary Rick Perry to travel to Ukraine to attend the new president’s inauguration.

By July, Colonel Vindman had grown deeply concerned that administration officials were pressuring Mr. Zelensky to investigate Mr. Biden. That concern only intensified, he said in his opening statement, when he listened in to the now-famous July 25 phone conversation between Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Trump.

“I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen,” his testimony said, “and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.”

His heritage gave Colonel Vindman, who is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian, unique insight into Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign; on numerous occasions, Ukrainian officials sought him out for advice about how to deal with Mr. Giuliani.

Colonel Vindman’s testimony is sprinkled with references to duty, honor and patriotism — but also his life as an immigrant and a refugee.

“I sit here, as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, an immigrant,” he plans to tell investigators, adding, “I have a deep appreciation for American values and ideals and the power of freedom. I am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country, irrespective of party or politics.”
Ms. Kitman, the photographer, said that is what she would expect from both the Vindman twins.

“When you talk about what good immigrants do,” she said, “look at what these immigrants are doing for this country.”

Danny Hakim contributed reporting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/politics/Alexander-Vindman-trump-impeachment.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Message 2017128 - Posted: 29 Oct 2019, 14:31:55 UTC

Another of Trump's wins. He said he would save the cal industry.
Biggest Private Coal Miner Goes Bust As Trump Rescue Fails

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Message 2017130 - Posted: 29 Oct 2019, 14:35:06 UTC - in response to Message 2017124.  

They are from Kyiv not Kiev:)
https://www.kyivpost.com/world/kyiv-not-kiev-us-changes-spelling-of-ukrainian-capital.html


And his name is Oleksandr, not Alexander.
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Message 2017135 - Posted: 29 Oct 2019, 15:07:38 UTC - in response to Message 2017130.  

They are from Kyiv not Kiev:)
https://www.kyivpost.com/world/kyiv-not-kiev-us-changes-spelling-of-ukrainian-capital.html

And his name is Oleksandr, not Alexander.
Of course. Олекса́ндр was born in Ukraine, not Russia. Oh. It was the Soviet Union, CCCP, back then.
Whatever. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/29/1895822/-As-Lt-Col-Alexander-Vindman-arrives-for-deposition-Republicans-work-to-attack-the-messenger
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Message 2017141 - Posted: 29 Oct 2019, 16:31:26 UTC

For some reason, Sasha tends to be the nickname Oleksandr.
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For some reason, Sasha tends to be the nickname Oleksandr.
Yes. Like Vladimir Putin's nick name is "Vova":)
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I believe Trump & many of his followers believe all Democratic politicians, all people registered for as Democrats and all people that have ever voted for any Democratic candidates are savages. They are our betters. We will burn in hell while they lose their free will and memories in heaven.
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Mr. Trump in particular — is a story of “us” harassed by “them.”Mr. Trump in particular — is a story of “us” harassed by “them.”
He call it witch hunting when he's being criticized. Yes. Even the most witch hunted president of all time:) I don't think that is a good leadership.
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Message 2017177 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 0:16:23 UTC

To the person trying to respond to me, probably trying to tell me I'm wrong: it comes from years of comments from conservative friends.
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Message 2017179 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 0:36:31 UTC - in response to Message 2017178.  

Clyde thank Newt for that.
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I believe Trump & many of his followers believe all Democratic politicians, all people registered for as Democrats and all people that have ever voted for any Democratic candidates are savages. They are our betters. We will burn in hell while they lose their free will and memories in heaven.

If that is the case, then If donations to Democrats mean you’re anti-Trump, the White House is in very deep trouble

Or to put it simply, Trump is anti-Trump.
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To the person trying to respond to me, probably trying to tell me I'm wrong: it comes from years of comments from conservative friends.

Yes, they judge so they can be judged. It is their nature, like an al baghdadi.
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Message 2017183 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 4:40:31 UTC - in response to Message 2017178.  

To the person apparently responding to my post.

My comments come from present day comments by friends in Left Academia and my years teaching in Left Academia.

Your conservative friends and my left associates and friends are apparently confirming what I posted.

Both sides are the same. And both sides refuse to understand this.

A few years ago you were commenting on how right wing your colleagues in Academia were and how much support they had for Trump.
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Message 2017186 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 5:35:31 UTC - in response to Message 2017180.  

Clyde thank Newt for that.

I thank [sic] both deranged sides for what is happening.

And neither side understands they are the same as what they attack.

Clyde examine history, I'm old enough to remember, Newt started this in modern times.
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Clyde thank Newt for that.

I thank [sic] both deranged sides for what is happening.

And neither side understands they are the same as what they attack.

Clyde examine history, I'm old enough to remember, Newt started this in modern times.


His examination and analysis of history is superior to ours,
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Message 2017283 - Posted: 30 Oct 2019, 22:59:26 UTC

One "side" does understand we're all in this together. They are attacked mercilessly, for decades upon decades, yet seldom if ever return attacks.
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Message 2017304 - Posted: 31 Oct 2019, 2:29:06 UTC

Minimal posts on my part, already tiring out the other "side". LOL!
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