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(53,973 posts)This was not a "use" of a solder as prop, imo. This was the 3rd time this president had met with Remsburg. The first two were before his injury. And after acknowledging his TEN DEPLOYMENTS and honoring him, the President said that it was time for us as a country to "GET OFF OF OUR PERMANENT WAR FOOTING" (his actual words).
I've never in my life time, and I suspect the same is the case of everyone else on this thread, ever heard a U.S. President utter such a profound anti-war statement. And that juxtaposed next to the honoring of a 10-deployment, disfigured solder was a not-so-subtle jab at the military industrial complex to stop with the wars where we need to keeping sending troops so many time that they get life-changing injuries.
If you call that "using" the solder then I guess the President is guilty.