Posted on 02/03/2009 8:03:16 PM PST by Technical Editor
Well I can “hope” for a real “CHANGE” after all too y’know, instead of this loser and his lying people who are hell-bent on destroying this great country!!
That isn't going to happen. I have never served myself but I do have family serving. How much skin do you have in the game?
LOL!
I hope so. It looks like several are going for things on the record like Gates.
Listening to you guys makes me feel so at home, even though we’re in an entirely different country now.
As a former Marine I can tell you that my loyalties lied in my command, not the Commander in Chief. Our Field Grade Officers are well educated in how our country got to be Our Country...War College, etc.
They very well may be our last, best defense.
And even more telling, wait for the RE-enlistments to dry up under this nutjob. Would you want to re-enlist, knowing that everything you'd done and all your buddies who had died or been injured was in vain???
That promise was also made by Hussein just a few weeks ago. Our top military leaders do not have an easy choice here. If they resign, they will leave our troops in the field at the hands of our enemies within, Hussein included. Someone high enough has to protect our troops in harms way.
What he ought to do is refuse an order because he’s not sure the man in the oval office is a legitimate president.
Yes, I’d say you’re wrong and unaware that there are millions of Americans now waiting for people with some sense to demand a check of the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office people think he holds.
We don’t know for sure what his NAME is.
We don’t know for sure whether or not he’s a natural born citizen.
We don’t know for sure whether or not he’s an illegal alient.
Nobody anywhere has seen his birth certificate, although Nancy Pelosi swore to each of the 50 states that he was constitutionally qualified to be president. If she had seen his full-length birth certificate, why is he hiding it from everybody else? If he goes down, she and a lot of others — a LOT of others — go down to, probably and including Hillary Clinton.
The only thing tougher then being a Marine (or any member of the service) is being a Marine’s mom!!!!
Yes, they can refuse his orders and challenge his eligibility to give them in the first place. Then let him fire them and see what happens.
What are you talking about, Josephny?
A couple of things struck me about this article:
1. The WH staffer who anonymously stated that Patreaus doesn’t know who he’s dealing with obviously has no appreciation for GEN P and the military, and knows that the journalist is friendly to Obama (as 99% are).
2. GW Bush, GEN P, and SEC Gates already planned to withdraw in 16-18 months. It was announced several months ago. The entire story is a non-story, but they want us to forget that so that it can be seen as Obama’s idea.
3. GEN P has spent the majority of the last six years studying about and fighting the war in Iraq. It is peaceful there now only because of the very hard work of a lot of dedicated people who have sacrificed so much to make it so. Obama hasn’t sacrificed anything for it and is only President because of a mis-guided vote against the war in 2002.
4. It is very disheartening for the military to see the entire thing turned over to a bunch of theoretical brainstormers who want it over on a strict timeline regardless of the consequences. The military wants this thing over with too, they just want it to be on the right terms.
5. The left has bashed Rumsfeld, Bush, GEN Franks, and others for being too bold in their assessment of what was needed to achieve victory (too few troops on D-Day, not enough attention paid to the aftermath). Yet they are themselves making the same bold (and possibly errant) assumptions in pushing the military to speed up the timetable for withdrawal.
I’m saying thank goodness for FR, it reminds me of the straight-shooting philosophy this country once had. And I do mean shooting!
LOL. At least the boys have stopped jumping out of Airplanes.
Whole article seemed rather fishy!
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