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Milley: No One Has Been Punished for Afghanistan Ending, But Looking for ‘Pound of Flesh’ Is ‘Wrong Idea’
Breitbart ^ | 10/02/2023 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 10/03/2023 6:03:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During interviews with NBC News and NPR released on Monday, recently-retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley stated that no one has been punished for how the war in Afghanistan ended, but “where people are looking for a pound of flesh. I think they’re looking in the wrong idea here.”

During the interview with NBC, “Nightly News” host Lester Holt asked, “Has anyone been held accountable [for] what went wrong with the Afghanistan withdrawal?”

Milley responded, “If you mean has anyone been specifically punished in some way, no. But, look, Lester, that war didn’t end the way anybody wanted it to end. And I can tell you, with 100% certainty, that thousands of people, from privates, to generals, to people in the interagency, did their very best that they could under the circumstances to make sure that we executed the president’s orders. Wars don’t end because of events in the last ten or fifteen days, any war is the cumulative effect of many, many decisions along the way. This was a 20-year war. There were decisions made over 20 years that landed us where we did.”

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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; ending; flesh; milley
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To: dfwgator

Not really. By medal count they are about the same. We just went with the small square design!


61 posted on 10/03/2023 1:39:19 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People died unnecessarily, and we stupidly left over $80 billion of equipment for the Taliban do use (or sell to Russia, China and Iran). SOMEONE has to be held accountable, and the perfect person is this treasonous (who said that he’d tell the Chinese in advance about us going to war with them) woketard.


62 posted on 10/03/2023 3:36:55 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ABStrauss

“This man is a military genius comparable to Georgie Patton or Doug MacArthur.”
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I’d like some of what you’re smoking, snorting and/or injecting.


63 posted on 10/03/2023 3:39:36 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Uh, he pulled the trigger.

Look in the mirror jerk.


64 posted on 10/03/2023 3:41:46 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: dfwgator

Half the ribbons are for sexual harassment classes, diversity forums, fixing jammed copiers


65 posted on 10/03/2023 3:44:53 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Ancesthntr

Methinks you need your sarcasm meter adjusted.


66 posted on 10/03/2023 3:46:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Looks like Ohio State football helmets


67 posted on 10/03/2023 3:46:27 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Fledermaus

Ha ha ha.


68 posted on 10/03/2023 3:46:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The celebration is when all these pukes are indicted prosecuted and jailed


69 posted on 10/03/2023 3:52:21 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: detch

But many will remember the Biden gang hounding LLoyd Austin to sign “climate change” papers instead of preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan safely and properly.


70 posted on 10/03/2023 4:03:43 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey Milley, You Chinese whore...eat poo poo and cease to live.


71 posted on 10/03/2023 5:40:06 PM PDT by centermass_socrates (Got to keep the loonies on the path.)
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To: dfwgator

“Methinks you need your sarcasm meter adjusted.”
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All of the RINOs and trolls on FR lately, you never know.


72 posted on 10/03/2023 6:16:01 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

I see your point.


73 posted on 10/03/2023 6:16:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Milley is a shill liar and a traitor part 1 video on Rumble 6:16

Milley is a shill liar and a traitor part 2 video on Rumble 5:20

74 posted on 10/03/2023 9:48:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Millet is not only a traitor but a coward. He destroyed Westpoint and the rest of the military. He is a commie.


75 posted on 10/03/2023 11:36:19 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: Ancesthntr

/s


76 posted on 10/04/2023 3:41:33 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: brownsfan
From 77-78, I participated in Nuclear Surety Inspections at a local remote site, but in a tangential way. At my battery, we assembled a 40 man platoon, to include issuing live ammunition.

The outbriefings were attended by the entire chain of command, all the way up to the Deputy CG of 32nd AADCOM. He also had a role: in the rare event that the battery failed, he would fire the entire chain of command up through the Group Commander.

The pucker factor in the briefing room was palpable.

77 posted on 10/04/2023 3:56:04 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

“The pucker factor in the briefing room was palpable.”

Used sparingly, fear is a fantastic motivator.


78 posted on 10/04/2023 8:39:56 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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