Navy SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Fires off Message to Liberals Trashing Trump’s July 4th Parade
https://www.westernjournal.com/author/joesetyon/?ff_source=push&ff_medium=conservativetribune&ff_campaign=pushtraffic&ff_content=2019-07-03 The former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shot that k**led 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden had a message Wednesday for those criticizing President Donald Trump over the upcoming “Salute to America” Independence Day parade in Washington, D.C.
Many people seemed to take particular issue with the fact that the parade was set to include tanks.
But Robert O’Neill, who was part of the team dispatched to eliminate bin Laden, offered a bit of perspective on the tanks.
“Dear triggered Americans,” he tweeted, “These tanks are on your side.”
and then the kicker: “You’d know if they weren’t.”
O’Neill was not the only former member of the military to see things this way.
In a piece for National Review, Iraq War veteran David French noted that “tanks have had their own very benign role in Washington parades for a very long time.”
“Tanks have rolled through the streets during inaugural parades for presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Kennedy,” he wrote. “This picture, from Eisenhower’s second inaugural shows tanks in motion in a way that would lead to a Twitter meltdown today.”
“There is nothing ominous about their presence, especially given the fact that our military is (rightly) one of the last trusted institutions in America,” French added. “It does not threaten our Constitution; it protects our founding principles.”
In fact, French believes most people will enjoy seeing the tanks....