‘You Lost Me’: Retired Marine Criticizes Mattis Over Letter About Lafayette Park Protesters

Has much bearing on what is happening today....

Never forget the Haditha Marines

The print of that tweet is too small for me to read.
I’ll drive by later.

Mattis is just another butthurt ego.

I created a more readable copy:

Jim:
I slept on your statement and woke up appalled and upset. You lost me. Never dreamed you would let a bunch of hack politicians use your good name and reputation- earned with the blood and guts of young Marines.
You did what you said you would - engage in this discourse.
Marines keep their word.
The phony protesters near Lafayette park were not peaceful and are not real They are terrorists using idle hate filled students to burn and destroy. They were abusing and disrespecting the police when the police were preparing the area for the 1900 curfew. Jim, this is the new nihilism. See Dan Henninger in WSJ today.
Marines support the police in harm's way.
Did you forget that President Bush used active duty Marines to quell the riots in LA? President Trump has countless cities and some snowflake governors and mayors wetting themselves to the use of force to protect innocent lives and property. The AG of Massachusetts thinks burning property is good protest. Three more policemen were stabbed and shot in NYC last night.
Think about it. Should he be upset about the obvious failure of leadership? Where are you Jim?
Marines go to the fight.
No one divided this country more than Obama. He abandoned our black brothers and sisters. He gave guns to the cartels. He apologized for our precious sacrifice and generosity overseas.
You remember, he fired you
President Trump has done more to help our minority brothers and sisters in three years than anyone in the last fifty. Ask the black pastors. Ask the leaders of the black colleges and universities. He got them funded. Ask them about the prison reform which ended the draconian sentences imposed on young black men by the laws enacted by Biden and his hacks.
You need to bone up on your homework and stop listening to Uncle Leon.
I understand, you had to stick to the assigned narrative which did not include three years of corrupt investigations and evidence to destroy this President, his office, and his lawful free election. Nancy has no tolerance for dissent in the ranks-including those with stars.
You said nothing of the ugly, hate fitted, disgraceful comments of Pelosi, Schumer, Perez and other Democrat hacks defaming the President and his office. You said nothing of the unlawful sanctuary cities and the unlawful release of hoodlums. You said nothing of the resistance movement to paralyze our courts and our government operations. You said nothing of the obstruction and subversion our immigration laws. You said nothing of MS-13 killers and the drug cartels who own huge sections of our major cities. Jim, do you think that hateful rhetoric and those corrupt actions were inspiring and unifying? Do you think the DI's at Parris Island would find such behavior as unifying? Maybe, your problem, is a lot deeper. Perhaps you ought to explain how and why you (and John Allen), as CG Central Command, did not engage and take out Iranian Major General Soleimani who roamed the Middle east and wreaked havoc and death on our American boys with his infamous IEDs?
Why did it take President Trump to have the instincts and balls to take him out (of course over the objection the geniuses to the Pentagon)?
Looks like the Persian mullahs were a one horse sleigh and Trump nailed the horse.... forever. It has been quiet ever since. Perhaps your anger is borne of embarrassment for your own failure as the leader of Central Command. Did you applaud when the President recognized the central problem in the middle east? Did you applaud the President when he wanted to save American lives by bringing them home in one piece?
John M Dowd

That is one powerful Open Letter.
Several megatons of power. It describes our current situation perfectly. Even uninformed civilians like myself can understand what’s being said.
Thank you for the boiled down synopsis.

Thank you.

Didn’t know much about the political quisling prior to the PC persecution of Haditha Marines. Wasn’t happy when Trump gave him a second chance.

The Obama persecution of the Haditha Marines were heartbreaking times.

Bravo, John Dowd!

I was watching at White House attack while Secret Service stood and took that dreadful abuse by those communist young people. It was scary and despicable.

An attack on the White House in not only an attack on our President but also an attack on we Americans.

God bless our President and the United States of America.

General Mattis has only brought disgrace to himself.

Bravo, John Dowd!

I was watching at White House attack while Secret Service stood and took that dreadful abuse by those communist young people. It was scary and despicable.

An attack on the White House in not only an attack on our President but also an attack on we Americans.

God bless our President and the United States of America.

General Mattis has only brought disgrace to himself.