Posted on 08/26/2010 7:28:23 PM PDT by Nachum
On Tuesday, lacking even the excuse that a Rolling Stone reporter tricked him, another top U.S. military commander thumbed his nose at President Barack Obama's policies in Afghanistan.
Marine Corps Commandant James T. Conway, 62, Tuesday told a roomful of reporters at the Pentagon that Mr. Obama's July 2011 deadline for beginning troop withdrawals from Afghanistan is "probably giving our enemy sustenance.... We've intercepted communications that say, ‘Hey, you know, we only have to hold out for so long.'"
Gen. Conway went on to say that Mr. Obama was no doubt "talking to several audiences" when he announced the July 2011 deadline, suggesting that the president may have being coy when he outlined his Afghanistan policy in a speech at West Point last December.
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The U.S. govt, legislative (including those “tea party conservatives” helping McCain), judiciary is totally corrupt and 100% behind Islam.
The Pentagon, military, DIA, CIA, NSA and other agencies are infested with Muslim Brotherhood moles and sympathesizers. Ditto ALL of TV and Hollywood.
The Marines may be the only institution left in America that has not been corrupt and Islamified.
It is strange. On the other hand, I would support a military coup right now. So the more criticism of hussein from the troops the better.
I knew E7s with 16 and 18 years who got out back in the ‘90s when Slick Willy was president because they couldn’t take it any more. It has to be much worse now.
“lick camel dung off the Commandants’ boots.”
I think you meant to say the lance corporals boots.
We had over 3 marines from a local base here in California recently. They were just the greatest young men. My 16 year old was so impressed, he asked them for (and recieved) a Marine hair cut. Made a great impression on him. And on us.
Young guys, just starting out. I pray for them.
Jim Conway is calling a spade a spade. He’s the straightest shooter within the Beltway. He will do anything to protect his Marines, even if the means calling a spade a spade.
Waiting in the wings is Jim Mattis, who (rightfully) believes that our enemies deserve killing.
I have personnaly known both of them and this country should be thankful that Marines such as these serve this Nation well.
Semper Fi,
Uhm, then can damn well get his Birth Certificate and let’s compare it to the one Barry the Petulant found among his mother’s belongings in 1995 upon her passing.
Dissent is only disloyal when the left doesn’t like it. F’em, get a competent leader and you will have followers.
I miss the Globe-Democrat. (sigh)
Civilian control does not trump the truth. Commanders at all levels have a duty to speak the truth. ZeroBama is a Moo-slim Marxist Kenyan. I’m enlisted (retired) but I have a duty to speak the truth, also. My Oath does not have an expiration date.
St. Louis and its politicians and journalists don’t fight for anything - they just surrender.
Hey St. Louis, how’s your crime rate these days?
Yes. My sympathies are with are fighting men and women, but... I hate to say it but there has to be order and public respect for the CIC. I don’t know if this crosses the line, but I am not comfortable with these types of articles. I abhor Obama, but there has to be respect and a unified front for the sake of the USA.
I don’t think the concept of civilian control has anything to do with this. It doesn’t mean service men have to pretend the president is smart, good looking, or knows anything about winning a war. All it should mean is that they obey orders or resign.
“. . . this one Iraqi would be hailed as the Lion of Fallujah (or where ever) who drove the US out of Iraq.”
Certainly by the LA and NY Times.
I like the way Conway bitch-slapped soetoro, who can evidently do nothing but take it.
Then perhaps General Conway intends to send a more powerful message than we have heretofore supposed. If the purported Commander in Chief was in fact an imposter working for foreign interests, would 88 UCMJ still apply?:
“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
If a man, one who has known and honored the highest principles of duty and fidelity to country embodied by the military code of justice, suddenly acts as if this one person should not be respected under that code, is he trying to tell us indirectly that he knows something he can’t tell us directly?
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