I hope that ahole is fired already. He damn sure should be.
He should be fired and made to drive a truck as another person who questioned a different President was fired and drove a truck instead.
The general is doing his job.
There are rules established within the system that pertain to the attacking or counter attacking of a foe.
The rules of engagement (ROE). enable mission accomplishment, force protection, and compliance with law and policy. While ROE are always commanders’ rules, the interpretation, drafting, dissemination, and training of ROE are also the business of OPLAW JAs (Judge
Advocates).
ROE are commanders’ rules for the use of force. Operations personnel are principally responsible to ensure that the ROE further operational requirements. OPLAW JAs assist the commander to interpret, draft, disseminate, and train ROE because all ROE must conform to international law, because a Department of Defense Directive and service regulations give military attorneys a role in ROE compliance, and because the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has directed that attorneys will review all operations plans and participate in targeting meetings of military staffs.
Also, the Hague and Geneva Conventions contain dissemination provisions that encourage the involvement of judge advocates in ROE matters. A provision of the 1977 Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions-which though not ratified by the United States is considered declarative of customary international law on this point-expressly mentions the role of “legal advisors.”
So that general is bound by political, military and international law to inform decision making personnel making an ROE decision, to include especially the president in the deployment of nuclear weapons. And then like the general mentioned, when they figure out how to do it legal, it’s full steam ahead.
This has been going on since the early 70’s and is part of the briefings in Army Field Manual 100-5, Operations. It is also dispersed through the different branches and levels of command. Nothing new. Just something to make noise about to try to embarrass Trump.
The media ought to be slapped for this BS.
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The general’s comments were completely reasonable.
However, the general does need reality training about the MSM’s desire to utterly destroy Republicans, Conservatives, and Donald Trump.
The general should have instantly smelled the political poison in this question and volunteered to send a written response once he had time to reflect on it.
And so Mr President, when you allowed Secretary Mattis to countermand your cross dresser’s order, you opened a pandora’s box of insubordination and disrespect by other senior officers. You have not lifted a finger to drain the swamp at Defense, it is still riddled with Obama appointees and Generals, don’t expect any changes there until you get serious about what you said you would do.
Trump should fire this guy right now and replace him with someone who will unequivocally follow his commander-in-chief’s orders.
Your ass needs to be immediately fired, it's not the complicated. This guy thinks that he gets to vet orders from higher up and has veto power if he doesn't like them? Yeah, that goes over real well in the military. This Obama-era idiot needs to be fired yesterday.
This has nothing to do with hypothetical ‘illegal orders’. Every last one of these corrupt and politicized pieces of living sh!t that voted for Hillary, all 96% of the putrid swamp, believe that the Trump admin is illegal in and of itself. They do not recognize his legitimacy as POTUS. The reason why they’re in open rebellion and #resist mode.
If you haven’t figure that out after the massive leaks, the special counsel coup, the spying, the tweets by holder and his ilk to ‘hold the line’, etc...then there’s no hope for you.
I have no doubt that he would have likewise refused an "illegal" order from Obama to launch nukes, so what's the controversy here?
Regards,
RELEIVE OF COMMAND, that Air FARCE GENERAL!!!
Do you get the difference between the inference of the headline and the actual quote?
Do something useful...
My first response was to have the General fired for insubordination but after looking into the article realized it was a hit piece framed to make the General look insubordinate and Trump’s decisions questionable. The MSM is deplorable.
Holy crap. Just two months and it seems forever ago...