Posted on 04/21/2015 12:53:51 PM PDT by don-o
Gen. Martin Dempsey is used to giving orders, but it was an apology he issued Monday to Debbie Lee, after the Gold Star mom complained that the joint chiefs chairman trivialized the Iraqi town where her son became the first Navy SEAL to die in the Iraq War.
Lee, whose son Marc was killed in Ramadi in 2006 after a fierce firefight with insurgents, told FoxNews.com she was "in tears" Friday after listening to comments by Dempsey in which he said the imminent fall of Ramadi to ISIS militants was "not symbolic in any way."
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Debbie Lee is a great American.
Sorta like saying, “I’m sorry you were offended.” instead of “I’m sorry I offended you.”
There are times when a qualified apology is justified, but this wasn’t one.
Here you eat humble pie and be glad you did.
If her pain hadn’t been added to, she wouldn’t have spoken up.
FAIL
I hope that Dempsey adds the descriptive phrase “Perfumed Prince” to his resume for the sake of accuracy. He’s typical of many of the generals the Obama regime chooses for high level positions.
BTW: The prince of this type of apology was Bill Clinton. The press enabled him also.
He would actually come out and insult the person that was owed and apology, and the press would call it an apology.
Beat anything I’d ever seen along those lines.
And Martin Dempsey is still a meaching little turd!
Real generals, admirals and many colonels too were driven from their commands by the Obama regime in what can only be described as "The Night of the Long Knives 2.0". If you were not in favor of his obviously "Gay Agenda" and the downsizing of the military you got the axe. Never in the national history have so many high ranking officers been cashiered as under this narcissistic dictator.
Dempsey is a Progressive POS apologist and enabler for Barack Obama’s international misadventures. He told Ted Cruz ISIS could never be defeated unless we win their hearts and minds or get them all a job or some such nonsense. He needs to be the firs to go when Ted takes office.
Dempsey has his head so far up Obama’s butt he can taste what he had for lunch.
I believe Dempsey’s initial words make him complicit with his enemy islamist CIC’s War On America.
The only reason he’s sorry is that he got called out.
It’s the mom’s decision, of course. However, were it my son or daughter, I’d tell him to resign, and remember Admiral Boorda, who committed suicide apparently for wearing combat decorations to which he was not entitled.
IMHO, Dempsey’s dereliction of duty is far worse.
Amen! And Dempsey's apology was half vast.
I can see why BHO likes this putz of a general officer. He was in charge of Baghdad when the insurgency grew to its height. He nearly lost his AO.
Dempsey is the biggest most worthless idiot ever to wear stars. His sheer incompetence makes him a disgrace to the uniform.
A private in charge of the latrine has more leadership ability than this hack with stars.What a disgusting man.God help those serving under him.
That’s the price you pay Dempsey for following a fool like Obama...! Open mouth insert foot!
“They must determine the path and pace of this fight. That's what I intended to convey,” he wrote.
This is Obama talking thru his personal 4 star mouth puppet. We aren't even in the fight to destroy ISIS. Obama is bystanding- flinging a few airstrikes to the Iraqis like throwing candy on the street to little kids. To commit overwhelming ground and air forces to annihilate ISIS in Iraq, would mean Obama repudiating his own political career platform against ever being in Iraq. In the meantime, ISIS murders Christians across the ME and North Africa. Obama doesn't care. He's in legacy protection mode and his butt boy general is just fine with that.
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