Posted on 02/15/2011 3:04:29 PM PST by VRWCTexan
General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of his generation, is to leave his post as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. The Times can reveal that the Pentagon aims to replace General Petraeus, who was appointed less than eight months ago, by the end of the year
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You mean he can’t take Obama’s restrictions and micro-management of the war effort any longer?
And I cannot take you seriously.
No sure it’s true, but I can’t imagine he would want to serve under this CIC. After all, everything Obama is doing is agenda-driven.
You're essentially suggesting that the military go on strike in time of war.
No thanks.
Mullen was appointed by Bush in 2007.
Neither man fell under his chain of command. What would you have had General Petreaus do?
Which is why he would never debase himself by getting into electoral politics.
Obama needs to be impeached, tried for treason and sentenced by a jury of military families who lost loved ones due to Obama’s Rules of Engagement.
What would you have had General Petraeus do?
Nelson Rockefeller is the Gold Standard of RINOs....
Yes, after Bush threw Peter Pace under the bus because Pace had voiced opposition to repeal of DADT. The rats wanted Pace gone and would settle for nothing less than a poofter like Mullen. Bush was once again a punching bag for the rats, as he was for most of his 8 years.
No, I’m suggesting that we have a Constitutional president in time of war, for national security reasons such as the need for LAWFUL orders.
I’m suggesting that if the men and women who have offered to give up their lives in defense of this country and her Constitution have questions of conscience as to whether their oath allows them to obey a particular order, their chain of command and CINC take their concerns seriously and not f@rt around with them as if it’s some stupid game.
Radical, I know, to expect that anybody actually CARES about the oath they make.
Lakin was one man who was willing to represent the whole body of officers who had concerns. It would have taken one action by the CINC to answer the questions of conscience for the whole group. There was no need for everybody to “go on strike in time of war”. All that was needed was a CINC who was willing to respond to ONE person. He wasn’t, and we pretty much know now that it’s because he is an unconstitutional usurper whose orders are all unlawful.
The chain of command should know above everyone else what a national security risk that was. They didn’t care. They picked their noses while sticking out their tongues at a man whose latrine they weren’t worthy to clean. Despicable.
The real world has a way of highlighting stupidity....
No, my words say that the military should have requested clarification as Lakin asked them to do for over a year.
The fact that they didn’t has consequences.
If Lakin’s brigade commanders had ordered him to combat operations in Iran should he have gone? Should the chain of command have sent him to prison if he refused? Why or why not? The only difference between Iran and Afghanistan is that we have (supposedly) had a POTUS authorize the use of force in Afghanistan. If that isn’t actually true - if there has been no legally valid authorization for the use of force in Afghanistan - then the orders to Afghanistan are just as unlawful as orders to Iran.
For Judge Lind to say that proper authorization is irrelevant to the lawfulness of orders means that any brigade commander can initiate war without valid legal authorization. Now THAT is dangerous. And everybody in the chain of command was fully cognizant of that fact. They allowed Judge Lind to set a precedent that blows away the entire structure of authority and lawfulness.
It doesn’t get any more serious than this.
I hope not, since he has described himself as a "Rockefeller Republican".
EXACTLY! Despicable!
Butter, you do have a way with words!
Positioning for a run at the White Hut.
Hell, he’d be right at home with most of the clods who keep threatening to run. He’d be the most honest, anyway
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