"Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me."
Posted on 06/09/2020 7:33:00 AM PDT by billorites
The Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits active generals from disparaging their commander in chief. Article 88 of the UCMJ makes it a crime to voice “contemptuous words against the president” and other senior civilian officials. But no one quite knows whether such codified prohibitions on free expression apply to retired generals receiving military pensions.
And lately, there has been a spate of “contemptuous words” against President Trump, leveled by retired generals, including some who under other presidents condemned just such conduct among their brethren.
Given the lack of legal clarity, a confused public could at least expect four rules of general decorum and courtesy when our top retired military leaders go on the attack against a sitting president. Unfortunately, a number of our most esteemed retired generals and admirals haven’t met these modest ethical expectations in their fury at Trump.
1) A retired general need not under any circumstances stoop to invoking Nazi Germany, Hitler or Fascism to criticize the president.
For example, the esteemed Gen. James Mattis, a former defense secretary in the Trump administration and a deservedly iconic figure, recently suggested that Trump fostered disunity in much the same way that Nazis did.
In a statement published in The Atlantic, Mattis wrote: “Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘the Nazi slogan for destroying us . . . was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis — confident that we are better than our politics. Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.
Couldn’t Mattis...
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If General Mattis truly wants to play politics, he should run for office.
He proved to be real crummy, when calling "Trump" a dummy, and acted like his chummy, the RINO Colin Powell.
Together they are known, as Generals who just groan, because they lost their throne, and now just bitch and howl.
Thank you Victor, please send him a signed copy of this article.
Hi, I’m General/Admiral X,
Just want you to know that I am fully for sending your sons and daughters to Iraq or Syria or wherever to “nation build” and kill thousands upon thousands of the local civilians (not purposefully, collateral damage, mind you).
But have our troops prevent a black owned business from being burned?!
That is a ghastly abuse of our Constitution.
He is
But Mattis is NO Eisenhower
He’s a 2d rate George McClellan
Mattis having crayon withdrawals.
And funny how he was silent during the reign of the jug eared, purple lipped marxist with his Nazi Nuremberg columns and unearthly god-like reverb from the sound system. And the poor brainwashed school children with their “barack hussein obama, mmm mmm mmm” songs like the Nazi children sang to hitler, and the Nork and Chinese children sing to Kim Jong Un and Xi.
But Trump is the devisive Nazi?
When I was at Fort Bliss, I was an operations officer for one of the directorates there. It was slotted as an O-5 position, and I was a Captain with barely a year time in grade.
lol
“He’s a 2d rate George McClellan”
I wouldn’t honor him by ranking him that high, at best he makes Gideon Pillow look like an effective leader.
They need to shut up.
George McClellan saved my wife's grandmother from attack by a swarm of bees. So goes the family story. They were neighbors outside of Philadelphia.
I've always imagined General McClellan dithering as the 6 y.o. girl got stung weighing whether he should intervene or wait for reinforcements.
It’s been a problem since at least the Civil War.
(Union general) George B. McClellan had a profound mutual hatred of Abraham Lincoln. After the War Department refused to publish his rationalizations of his mistakes and unwillingness to fight, by blaming everyone else, McClellan was nominated by the Democrats to run against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 U.S. presidential election.
Basically he was a John McCain type. But he was still a general.
There was a retired “general” named “Mad Dog”
Who wanted to become a political hot dog
He used to be a “fighter” but failed as a
“writer”
And now he’s a blithering pig dog
He’s a yapping little ugly chiweenie.
In resorting to “reductio ad Hitlerum” arguments, GEN Mattis is not merely being unprofessional, he is making a factually incorrect argument.
In their march to power and for over a decade after, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Ernst Rhoem, and the rest of their little NSDAP buddies did not promote disunity inside Germany. Through their dippy dogmas of racial purity and through every gambit of Left-wing totalitarian control, they enforced unity on “true Aryan” Germans. Political unity was accomplished by force: think and behave according to Nazi beliefs or else.
“Unworthy” subgroups (Jews, Romany, homosexuals, Slavs, other national populations - Poles, Russians, Balts etc) were considered less than human and thus unwanted in any capacity save as minions and slaves. People descended from such groups who had in some cases lived for generations under the German Empire, Prussia, or any of the numerous predecessor states & principalities, and more recently the Weimar Republic, had their citizenship revoked by the Nazis.
In no sense was Nazi Germany multiracial, multiethnic, or multicultural.
"Killin' generals could get to be a habit with me."
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