Posted on 04/30/2013 9:37:45 AM PDT by neverdem
The Pentagon’s top brass has dealt another blow to a decorated Army officer who was fired last year as a war college instructor because of his teachings about radical Islam, his attorney told The Washington Times.
A four-star general’s rejection of Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley for consideration for command of a combat battalion likely means the end of a promising Army career of an armor officer who was decorated for valor in Iraq and received glowing evaluations.
Last year, Col. Dooley underwent an Army command selection board review after he was transferred from the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va., to a weapons integration unit at Fort Eustis, Va.
The review board, comprising three generals and two colonels, voted to keep Col. Dooley as a candidate for battalion commander, his attorney, Richard Thompson, told The Times.
The board, however, was overruled by Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, then the Army’s vice chief and now chief of U.S. Central Command. He ordered Col. Dooley’s name removed from the candidates list, said Mr. Thompson, who added that he had read the “official use only” memo.
News of Col. Dooley’s setback has emerged as some researchers of radical Islam are criticizing the Obama administration for downplaying the Islamic connection in a string of attempted and successful terrorist attacks, including the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15.
Mr. Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan, said the blame for Col. Dooley’s...
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Col. Dooley’s downfall began in October 2011 with a letter sent by 57 American Islamic organizations to John O. Brennan, then President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser and now CIA director.
The groups, which include two tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls for global Islamic law, demanded that the government scrub its teaching on Islam. The White House complied...
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Thank you, still going strong, yet with a knot in my stomach since 2004. That’s how he stole the primary 2008 from Killary with Chealsey on the “block”!!!
Top brass, Mullen, Betreayus, Dempsey, and many more are ALL sold out to Satan, may GOD save our nation!!!
Wonder how the general, McCrystal(?) before Betreayus who was fired thinks???
The legalities are in question. One article I read said that 16 states allow health-cost-sharing cooperatives to exist apart from insurance regulation. In the other states the cooperatives may be subject to the same requirements as all the other health insurance companies under Obamacare if the state defines them as “insurance companies”.
Here are a couple of the articles I read on the subject:
/These are old articles. More positive write ups more recently.
Surprise! The US military’s political and with a pro-Islam POTUS we should expect more of this.
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