Posted on 07/29/2009 9:31:48 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The Stars and Stripes writer has learned to type with his/her nose firmly up Obozo’s butt.
If an active duty commander said “we might need to see it before I deploy my troops”, that would end the problem.
Bingo.
Love to see more people challenge their orders.
About Stars and Stripes
From their site.
http://www.stripes.com/webpages.asp?id=97
And, yes, terribly biased.
Have things changed that much in the Army?
Don't ask 0 where he was born or he will have an army of attorneys tell you to go F yourself.
Army Times is the Gannett paper you are thinking of.
Aww .. yes .. thank you.
I knew there was one .. ;)
“That’s not leadership. That’s not the way Maj. Cook was trained and brought up in the Army,” Friedman said. “You don’t leave a unit like that, and you certainly don’t do it because you’re trying to make a political statement.”
Exactly. Any other reason outside medical/hardship and the army would have intitiated disciplinary/legal action.
Wow,talk about biased writing.Who the hell wrote this?I dont think this was the majors first deployment to the war.It may however be the first since the fraud was installed as president.
People or soldiers? And if soldiers, why?
That would not be a good thing. We're at war right now. Last thing we need is for large portions of the military to decide they can have a sit down strike.
One key point for me in this article is where the Stars and Stripes point out that Cook volunteered for the mission first and then refused to go. A bit difficult to paint him as the innocent soldier just trying to do his job with a clear conscience when called up for duty when he picked the fight. If he truly feels the order is illegal, fine let him fight it. But the flip side of that is- if the order turns out to be legal they should lock his butt up for a good long time. He went looking for it and he should be prepared to accept the consequences that come with it.
I understand. A commander of a battalion or squadron is all the same. The commander expects all to protect the very essence of our Constitution. In my day, A field grade or better would have taken this weasel on.
Bet there is more to the story then what S&S wrote.
Maybe the lawsuit that was filed in Florida by Cook will bring out more of the story and the truth.
Maybe he volunteered for Afghanistan rather then Iraq. Either way the Army was sending him somewhere.
Hope also to find out why Gates and the pentagon found it necessary for them to pressure the Company Cook worked for that got him terminated.
I know the Company does business with the Pentagon but the only reason for his termination was because he challenged the 0.
Yes, our military. Why should they subject themselves to unlawful orders if the Commander In Chief is a big phony which most of us believe.
I hope there are some field grade or higher commanders willing to take this on and settle the issue. I’m an AF veteran (retiree actually) too. Keep aiming high! :)
>Exactly. Any other reason outside medical/hardship and the army would have intitiated disciplinary/legal action.
So then, WHEN is a member of the military SUPPOSED to inquire about the authority over him? That is, the legality of the orders.
If someone were to come up to me while I was on guard-duty for a restricted site and say “I’m a major, let me by!” I wouldn’t be obligated to do so... the same with sergeants, generals, congressmen, and even the president of the united states, if they weren’t authorized to be there. I say this because I’ve worked the site of a nuclear facility and not even the commanding general of the post was allowed entry w/o the proper authorization. (As a safeguard against say, someone holding his family hostage and making demands regarding nuclear material.)
Yes, there is. FR has several threads about this. Do a keyword search on stefancook. He's a FReeper, by the way.
Thank you sir for your service to the USA. :^)
You know what kills me about this is the fact that 0bama has spend millions to defend himself against these suits, when it takes maybe $15 and some first class postage to settle the whole thing.
Yet the media doesn’t mention that BUT if it were a Republican who was hiding his birth certificate, school records, passport records, Selective Service registration, thesis papers, published articles, and health records the media would be screaming about it until they’re purple in the face.
It's like reporting on a man named Henry who weighs 1,000 pounds. There's a big difference in referring to “Henry, who weighs 1,000 pounds” and “Henry, whose friends call him ‘half-ton-Hank’.”
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