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Martin Lewis: General Pace, You Can Save the US – by Arresting Bush for “Conduct Unbecoming”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
400 Joint Staff Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20318-0400
U.S. Marine Corps General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dear General Pace,
I note with admiration your courage in making clear your private concerns about the safety of the US military and the longterm danger to US national security caused by the President’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge the quagmire in Iraq.
Though you are Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President’s principal military advisor – President Bush has shown his disdain for your honesty and wisdom. Though you are a decorated Vietnam war hero – who has served his nation honorably for four decades – the President is dispensing with your services. You have one month left in your position before you are tossed out by the President.
Martin Lewis: General Pace, You Can Save The US – by Arresting Bush for “Conduct Unbecoming”
Dear General Pace,
I note with admiration your courage in making clear your private concerns about the safety of the US military and the longterm danger to US national security caused by the President’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge the quagmire in Iraq.
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace wearing medals, ribbons, and other insignia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Though you are Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President’s principal military advisor – President Bush has shown his disdain for your honesty and wisdom. Though you are a decorated Vietnam war hero – who has served his nation honorably for four decades – the President is dispensing with your services. You have one month left in your position before you are tossed out by the President.
President Bush is going to ignore your advice. Just as he has ignored the advice of other Generals who have had the courage to respectfully point out how terribly wrong he is in respect of the Iraq War and the safety of the US military he is sworn to protect.
Highly-decorated colleagues of yours such as General Anthony Zinni (Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command), General Eric Shinseki (Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) and General John Abizaid (Commander of the U.S. Central Command).
(Gunny G: As Always, See Reader Responses…) ~ By year’s end, troops will be unable to respond to crises, Pentagon says
By year’s end, troops will be unable to respond to crises, Pentagon says
Federal News Radio ^ | 4 Feb 13 | Jared Serbu
Posted on Friday, February 08, 2013 6:34:34 PM by SkyPilot
Every leader in the Pentagon has been warning for more than a year that if sequestration comes to pass the impact to the military will be severe. But the armed services’ most senior officers now are telling Congress those impacts are not a distant prospect — they could be looking at a “hollowed-out” force within a matter of months after the cuts are triggered.
The Turret Gunner Was a She… “Martin Dempsey, the Army general who’s now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was a division commander when he got to Baghdad in 2003 and climbed into a Humvee for his first trip off base. “I asked the driver … who he was (and) where he was from,” the general remembers, “and I slapped the turret gunner around the leg and I said, ‘Who are you?’ And she leaned down and said, ‘I’m Amanda.’”
The Turret Gunner Was a She
Townhall.com ^ | February 8, 2013 | Paul Greenberg
Posted on Friday, February 08, 2013 12:37:49 PM by Kaslin
English: General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, 18thChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Martin Dempsey, the Army general who’s now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was a division commander when he got to Baghdad in 2003 and climbed into a Humvee for his first trip off base. “I asked the driver … who he was (and) where he was from,” the general remembers, “and I slapped the turret gunner around the leg and I said, ‘Who are you?’ And she leaned down and said, ‘I’m Amanda.’
“And I said, ‘Ah, OK.’ So female turret gunner protecting division commander.”
One of the things that makes a good commander is the speed with which he can adjust to changed conditions, and the general had just been introduced to another reality of the ever-new U.S. Army.
The general told that story the other day as he stood next to the country’s secretary of defense to formally lift the Army’s ban on women in combat units. No, not every woman — or man — may be fit for combat, but now every trooper has a chance to qualify for it. Which is as it should be — at last.
I Question Your Patriotism…If you support the imperial troops, says Laurence Vance…
I have been called a lot of things since I began writing about ten years ago on the folly of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the evils of the U.S. military, and the belligerence of U.S. foreign policy.
Many of the things I have been called I can’t repeat because they are so vile and filthy. However, the negative e-mails have tapered off quite a bit over the years since these wars have turned out to be such debacles.
One charge that has been consistently leveled against me is that I am unpatriotic because I don’t “support the troops” as they invade and occupy other countries and mete out death and destruction to “insurgents” and “terrorists.” But who is really being unpatriotic? I think it is long past time that we question the patriotism of those who do “support the troops” in their foreign wars, occupations, interventions, and escapades.
Let’s take the case of Syria.
For months now we have heard how the United States must “do something” and intervene in Syria to end the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad and stop the violence that has led to the deaths of 40,000 people since the outbreak of an anti-regime revolt last year. The familiar cry that dictator x might use chemical weapons on his own people is being resurrected to garner support for U.S. intervention.
Hillary, the bigger man? (“Apparently the president of the United States of America is NOT a big man either and is willing to let Hillary Clinton take the fall for him – How noble of him and the vice president.”)
“It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong. I am NOT a big man.” ~ Fletch Lives
Apparently the president of the United States of America is NOT a big man either and is willing to let Hillary Clinton take the fall for him – How noble of him and the vice president.
The word ETHOS comes to mind. What is ETHOS? According to Merriam-Webster, Ethos is the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution.
Muslim Influence in Pentagon Prevails; Material on Radical Islam “Purged,”
“Outstanding Army Officer “Disciplined,” – TMLC Enters Case – “
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Thomas More Law Center announced today that it is representing U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, a 1994 Graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. In April 2012, LTC Dooley, a highly decorated combat veteran, was publically condemned by General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and relieved of his teaching assignment because of the negative way Islam was portrayed in an elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism.
Clinton, military leaders plead for sea treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and military leaders implored conservative Republicans on Wednesday to approve a long-spurned high seas treaty, saying it would create jobs, open a new path to oil, gas and other resources and bolster national security.
Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a rare joint appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make the case for the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. The United States is the only major nation that has refused to sign the treaty, which was concluded in 1982 and been in force since 1994.
But the committee chairman announced at the start of the hearing that he would not push for a Senate vote before the November elections. Still, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., insisted that approval of the treaty is necessary because the United States “has lived by the rules, but we don’t shape the rules.”
Chairman of Joint Chiefs removes instructors, material that is offensive to Islam
America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics.
Prison Planet.com » Even Israel Admits that Iran Has Not Decided to Build a Nuclear Bomb
Despite Misleading Hype, No Government Leaders Think that Iran Is Building a Nuclear BombAmerican and European leaders say that there is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.Even Israel – which has threatened to attack Iran on its own – now admits the same thing.As Haaretz noted on January 18th:
The intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin ] Dempsey indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb. The Israeli view is that while Iran continues to improve its nuclear capabilities, it has not yet decided whether to translate these capabilities into a nuclear weapon – or, more specifically, a nuclear warhead mounted atop a missile. Nor is it clear when Iran might make such a decision.
Prison Planet.com » Protesters Have the Right to Protest … and to Resist Unlawful Arrest
Top Military Commander and Courts Support Right to Protest
In response to comments from those supporting the police crackdowns on peaceful protesters exercising their constitutional rights but violating local ordinances (see comments here), reader Purplemuse writes:
Coup d’état: Seven Days In May (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))
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THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO “CIVIL WAR” WITHOUT BIG GOVERNMENT!
Admiral Mullen, it is your move, sir| The Post & Email
“A HISTORY OF REPEATED INJURIES AND USURPATIONS”James Madison, who succeeded Thomas Jefferson to the presidency, signed a Declaration of War with Britain in 1812
Dear Editor:This is my follow-up letter to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:June 25, 2010
Adm.Michael MullenChairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff9999 Joint Staff PentagonWashington, DC 20318-9999Dear Chairman Mullen,We are calling on you to stand by your words which you so nobly expressed on October 01, 2007, at the CJCS Tribute, Hail & Farewell:We must never forget that as citizens of this great nation we are morally bound to uphold the ideals of the Constitution, and as servants in uniform, we are also legally bound.
You also added the following:That trust is the bedrock of our service … the foundation of our republic … and we owe it to our fellow citizens to preserve it.
Further you added:“We took an oath…We made a promise…that places in us…and upon us…the trust of the American People.”
Let me add a comment of my own:Their deeds, not their words will define the courage and morality of honorable men! – Arnie
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War “Based On a Series of Lies”
In his recently published memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior,” General Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, called the Iraq war “unnecessary” and said that the Bush team went to war “based on a series of lies.”
Shelton also said that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz and other Pentagon officials pushed for war in Iraq “almost to the point of insubordination.”Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War Based On a Series of Lies PTUmbz3NTEzM2ZjODdmNTANTdhYmRhZDFlNzY2MjY5YTAZCZzPWJsb2dnZXImb2Y9MA==This is not some voice from the peanut gallery.The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is – by law – the highest ranking military officer in the United States armed forces, and the principal military adviser to the President of the United States.
The Chairman outranks all respective heads of each service branch, including the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
Thank you, General Shelton, for confirming what Seymour Hersh and many others have been saying since 2003 and see this.
Bill Clinton ‘lost vital White House nuclear codes’
For several months during Bill Clinton’s administration, a former top military officer says the White House lost the card with a set of numbers for opening the briefcase containing the codes for a nuclear attack.Gen Hugh Shelton, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, said in his new memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior” that “the codes were actually missing for months.
That’s a big deal — a gargantuan deal.”A similar claim was made by Lt Col Robert Patterson, a former aide, in a book published seven years ago. He was one of the men who carried the briefcase, known as the “football”, and he said that the morning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke that he made a routine request of the president to present the card so that he could provide an updated version.
“He thought he just placed them upstairs,” Lt Col Patterson recalled. “We called upstairs, we started a search around the White House for the codes, and he finally confessed that he in fact misplaced them. He couldn’t recall when he had last seen them.”
Full article here
The Joint Chiefs of Staff should be worried… | The Post & Email
And when the American people finally rise up and overthrow the usurper and his cohorts, loyal and true members of the U.S. Military will hall them from the holes into which they have fled, and bring them before a military tribunal on charges of treason.
And for that reason, the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be worried…
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Dwight Was Right | MichaelMoore.com
It matters not whom we elect.
The Pentagon and the military contractors call the shots.
The title “Commander in Chief” is ceremonial, like “Employee of the Month” at your local Burger King.
Everything you need to know can be found in just two paragraphs from Obama’s War. Here’s the scene:
Obama is meeting with his National Security Council staff on the Saturday after Thanksgiving last year. He’s getting ready to give a big speech announcing his new strategy for Afghanistan.
Except…the strategy isn’t set yet. The military has presented him with just one option: escalation. But at the last minute, Obama tells everyone, hold up — the door to a plan for withdrawal isn’t closed.The brass isn’t having it: “Mr. President,” [Army Col. John Tien] said, “I don’t see how you can defy your military chain here. We kind of are where we are. Because if you tell General McChrystal, ‘I got your assessment, got your resource constructs, but I’ve chosen to do something else,’ you’re going to probably have to replace him.
You can’t tell him, ‘Just do it my way, thanks for your hard work.’ And then where does that stop?” The colonel did not have to elaborate. His implication was that not only McChrystal but the entire military high command might go in an unprecedented toppling — Gates; Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Gen. David H. Petraeus, then head of U.S. Central Command. Perhaps no president could weather that, especially a 48-year-old with four years in the U.S. Senate and 10 months as commander in chief.




















































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