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Tucker decries Warren push to remove

Confederate monuments from military
cemeteries: 'This is vandalism'
Victor Garcia
3-4 minutes

Tucker Carlson spoke out Friday against Sen. Elizabeth Warren,

D-Mass., and her push to remove the names of Confederate
leaders from all U.S. military bases and other assets, saying
"healthy societies do not destroy their own history."

"Those bases include many of the most famous in the country: Fort
Benning, Georgia. Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Bragg in North
Carolina. You may have trained on one of those bases. The men
who fought and won World War II did," the "Tucker Carlson Tonight"
host said. "But Warren's amendment goes farther than just
renaming bases. Warren would also require the desecration of war
graves."

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MILITARY BASES NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

Carlson explained that many national cemeteries across America

"hold Civil War soldiers from both sides and contain monuments to
their sacrifice. Those soldiers, blue and gray, Confederate and
Union, are buried alongside one another, and they are for a reason.

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"One side in that conflict was right, the Union side and the other
was wrong, the Confederate side," Carlson emphasized. "But when
it was over, they were all Americans again, and allowing them to lie
in the same cemeteries next to each other allowed this country to
heal its deepest fissure, but healing is the opposite of what
Elizabeth Warren wants to do."

Carlson noted Warren's amendment would call for the Army to tear
down a monument to Confederate soldiers in Virginia's Arlington
National Cemetery.

"This is vandalism, obviously," the host stated, "but it's worse and
deeper than that.

"Healthy societies do not destroy their own history. A country is the

sum total of what has happened within it, good and bad," Carlson
said. "Without history you have no country. You just have a
collection of banks and check cashing outlets and retail stores. All
of us may have iPhones, but that's not a country."

Carlson slammed Republicans on the Senate Armed Services

Committee for not opposing the legislation, saying that they believe
"the mob will be sated" if they support the Warren amendment.

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"But they're mistaken in this," he warned. "Because it's never

enough. Extremists are never placated. Every success makes them
stronger and makes them more radical. We're watching it now."

"The Confederacy declared war on the United States," Carlson

concluded. "We're grateful they lost and that their cause was
discredited forever by losing. And it was discredited. But that's the
whole point.

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"The Civil War was the turning point in American history. It shaped
who we are now. Eliminating the past leaves us unable to say who
we are. And that's the point of eliminating it."

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