Posted on 10/01/2009 10:52:33 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
A conservative congressman said on Thursday that top generals may resign or retire early if President Barack Obama does not make a significant changes to the military's Afghan strategy.
"Sure, I think that's a legitimate concern," Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told Washington Times Radio this morning. "If the president chooses [not to readjust the strategy] but stay there, I think you'll see that kind of a thing happen, then I think you'll see those kinds of resignations."
Ryan expressed worry that the current strategy in Afghanistan is not working. Administration officials have said they are conducting a strategic review of the conflict there. He called for the White House to enact changes quickly
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COULDN’T care less. Sheesh.
The grunts should be allowed to resign as well. This idiot in the white house will produce his own version of an American holocaust with thousands of decent American soldiers dying to satisfy his dithering.
This is not good. How many will have to resign before 0 gets the sycophants he wants in there? Sycophants that might follow orders to order their troops to shoot down citizens in the street. Martial law would be a lot easier to declare if the military is run by a bunch of 0 buttboys. Just sayin’.
[I’m not aware of any attempted mutiny when they were ordered to bomb Serbia. ]
Serbia happened under Clinton, but that was before 911. Now our military would be much less likely to support Islamic regimes for any reason, which is what they would be doing if they shot down Israeli warplanes.
The “soft coup” is that Obama must know that he can’t trust his own military, thus his actions are limited within a sphere. If he says “over the top”, the troops might not charge.
They need to rise up and throw his as* out of office - he’s gone against the US Constitution and has seriously eroded national defense - he’s no President - but a dictator.
IMPEACH the National Socialist!
The armed forces swear to defend the Constitution and there is nothing in that document that disallows attacking an ally if ordered to do so.
I don't believe the US military is capable of mutiny beyond unit level and then it's unlikely.
Lastly, there is always a General Turgdson or a Major Kong around to get the job done.
PS: Yes, I know that congress also swears to uphold the constitution, but that's a different breed of cat.
PPS: In the meantime, I have fingers crossed in hope that you are correct.
The world is fixin’ to change again, too. At least this country. The level of instability is increasing hourly. We are rapidly approaching crisis on multiple fronts - economic, political, military, social - you name it. What specifically happens and what triggers it are totally unpredictable. What is a near certainty, IMHO, is that we will have serious crisis and a new type of breakdown within a year.
Have you all noticed how the left is using their media to set up the right to take the fall for any violence set in to motion by any of the above factors? They just don’t get the fact that they and their media mouthpieces have zero credibility with us and we are rapidly approaching the point where we would pay just about any price to be rid of them. The best scenario is that we as states just start ignoring them and their edicts.
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/2009/09/30/0930york_edit.html
It irritates me too, I swear there is an ever increasing tendency for people to say the opposite of what they intend to say. Grade school teachers used to have a fit when we country kids said something like, “I don’t know nothing about that”. Now people with college degrees say something similiar or even worse and not an eye is blinked, when did we stop speaking English?
—Bring GIs home - before job is done—
Oct. 1, 2009 12:00 AM
I never thought I would say it’s time to bring our troops home from Afghanistan before the job was done. But with President Barack Obama as commander in chief snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, I must say it’s time.
As a retired Army officer who did two tours in Vietnam, I know the futility of trying to win a war when the soldiers’ hands are tied by ineffective rules of engagement.
Obama has decided that the new rules of engagement require our troops not to engage the enemy or return fire unless they can guarantee that no civilians will be hurt or killed and that they must withdraw (retreat) when they are attacked.
Our troops are now sitting ducks who cannot fight back. This is unconscionable and either must be reversed or we must abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban and al-Qaida.
This will probably cause the fall of nuclear-armed Pakistan with the rest of the Middle East not far behind.
So much for (in Obama’s words) “a war of necessity.”
The destruction of Israel is inevitable. The domino theory is alive and well. God help us all. - David Rogers, Phoenix
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/10/01/20091001thurlets011.html
“Obama couldn’t plan a birthday party.”
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He wouldn’t need to. Rahm and Michelle can take care of it.
Chavez will furnish the smokes and snorts.
If we aren’t there to win, then bring those patriotic men and women HOME!!
It is unconscionable to require the deaths of the best of us for a political coward.
from my last post
No and their should have been, all we did was kill Christians and establish a drug haven for Muslims.
No and there should have been, all we did was kill Christians and establish a drug haven for Muslims.
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