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Martin Pengelly in Washington

‘Traitors’: US military veterans condemn blocking of officer promotions

Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville at the Capitol on 19 September 2023.
Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville, at the Capitol on 19 September, is protesting Pentagon policy that allows service members to travel for abortion care. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

A liberal group representing US military veterans took aim at Tommy Tuberville, the Alabama Republican senator holding up officer promotions in a protest over abortion, but also at party leaders who have not forced him to stand down, calling them “traitors” and warning: “Tight lips could sink ships.”

Presented in the style of a second world war propaganda film, a short ad from Vote Vets bemoans “an un-American assault on our military” by a “so-called American senator singlehandedly stop[ping] hundreds of military leaders from taking command”.

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