rumitoid

Mueller, throughout his five-decade career serving his country, has said that year of combat experience with the Marines has loomed large in his mind. “I’m most proud the Marines Corps deemed me worthy of leading other Marines,” he told me in a 2009 interview.

Today, the face-off between Special Counsel Robert Mueller and President Donald Trump stands out, amid the black comedy of Trump’s Washington, as an epic tale of diverging American elites: a story of two men—born just two years apart, raised in similar wealthy backgrounds in Northeastern cities, both deeply influenced by their fathers, both star prep school athletes, both Ivy League educated—who now find themselves playing very different roles in a riveting national drama about political corruption and Russia’s interference in the 2016 e******n.

The two men have lived their lives in pursuit of almost diametrically opposed goals—Mueller a life of patrician public service, Trump a life of private profit. Mueller a man who volunteered and fought gallantly in Vietnam, winning a bronze star and purple heart, Trump a man winning five deferments to avoid the draft, one for “bone spurs.” (Of the two, who seems the one of integrity and honor?)

Those divergent paths began with Vietnam, the conflict that tore the country apart just as both men graduated from college in the 1960s. Despite having been educated at an elite private military academy, Donald Trump famously drew five draft deferments, including one for bone spurs in his feet. He would later joke, repeatedly, that his success at avoiding sexually t***smitted diseases while dating numerous women in the 1980s was “my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.” (That statement should utterly disgust any patriot or veteran and goes a long way in illustrating what an ugly man at heart Trump is.)

Mueller, for his part, not only volunteered for the Marines, he spent a year waiting for an injured knee to heal so he could serve. And he has said ­little about his time in Vietnam over the years. When he was leading the FBI through the catastrophe of 9/11 and its aftermath, he would brush off the crushing stress, saying, “I’m getting a lot more sleep now than I ever did in Vietnam.” One of the only other times his staff at the FBI ever heard him mention his Marine service was on a flight home from an official international trip. They were watching We Were Soldiers, a 2002 film starring Mel Gibson about some of the early battles in Vietnam. Mueller glanced at the screen and observed, “Pretty accurate.”

His reticence is not unusual for the generation that served on the front lines of a war that the country never really embraced. Many of the veterans I spoke with for this story said they’d avoided talking about Vietnam until recently. Joel Burgos, who served as a corporal with Mueller, told me at the end of our hour-long conversation, “I’ve never told anyone most of this.”
https://www.wired.com/story/robert-mueller-vietnam/

Lonewolf

Vary good post thanks

rumitoid

You're welcome. I see that the t***h of Mueller's incredible shade on Trump, the irrefutable exposure of his wanton character (not just in comparison), was unanimously embraced by Trump-supporters through their usual practice: silence. Of course it is not not a purposeful silence but a complete loss of words at the overwhelming facts. What could they possibly say to counter the obvious about their chosen man? Cognitive dissonance has clogged the cogs of their thinking. No man's land for the Right.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Thanks for an excellent post & link. Mueller is, IMO, a fine man, and stands head and shoulders above in character to President Trump.

I feel strongly about what you say here. Read my post near the middle of page 3 of the following thread:

http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-77661-1.html

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Yeah, Mueller is a fine man alright.

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PJ

You are delusional. Mueller is an evil Thug, who has been corrupt for at least 20 years.

Radiance3

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Right, the Deep State where Mueller is an official, made him one of the most powerful corrupt, psychotic, fraud in US history. Track down the history of the Deep State where Mueller got powerfully involved in the biggest scheme and crimes of US history.

Radiance3

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Right, the Deep State where Mueller is an official, made him one of the most powerful corrupt, psychotic, fraud in US history. Track down the history of the Deep State where Mueller got powerfully involved in the biggest scheme and crimes of US history.