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Blaze Sources: Obama Purging Military Commanders
The Blaze ^ | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 | Sara Carter

Posted on 10/23/2013 10:32:35 AM PDT by kristinn

Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is underway.

Retired generals and current senior commanders that have spoken with TheBlaze say the administration is not only purging the military of commanders they don’t agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving.

The timing comes as the five branches of the U.S. armed forces are reducing staff due to budget cuts, and as U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan next year.

“I think they’re using the opportunity of the shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don’t agree with them or not tow the party line. Remember, as (former White House chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel said, never waste a crisis,” a senior retired general told TheBlaze on the condition of anonymity because he still provide services to the government and fears possible retribution.

“Even as a retired general, it’s still possible for the administration to make life miserable for us. If we’re working with the government or have contracts, they can just rip that out from under us,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; militarypurge; obama; purge
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To: kristinn
obamunist photo: Not to far fetched! obamunist_future.jpg

Counter-Revolutionaries will not be tolerated.

21 posted on 10/23/2013 10:56:03 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Never Again? The Regime sounds like all the other dictatorships in history, ya think?


They are as evil as any in history.

Obama is moving into the same league as Stalin and Hitler.


22 posted on 10/23/2013 10:56:23 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: kristinn

EVERYTHING this Bozo is doing smacks of a ‘Silent Coup’. They know that they have the media and education, and various government department like the EPA worship him. So now it is time to convert The Enemy and the military is the obvious first target. Comes the Revolution all the levers of power will be under his control.

By the way, didn’t Stalin purge his military just prior to the German invasion?


23 posted on 10/23/2013 10:57:11 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: laplata
Obama is moving into the same league as Stalin.

Who do you think he learned from?

24 posted on 10/23/2013 10:57:14 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: kristinn

A strongly unified group of reasonably armed men who have a good history of training together can VERY EASILY dominate a much MUCH larger adversary who are better armed but are strangers to each other.

All combat vets know this.

All this much ballyhooed, “rifle behind every blade of grass” is mostly hooey.

Just wait.


25 posted on 10/23/2013 10:57:29 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: kristinn

” or not tow the party line. “

TOE the party line.


26 posted on 10/23/2013 10:58:44 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: CyberAnt
I heard .. that the officers were asked if they would shoot citizens .. and if they said NO, they were fired.

That is pretty much correct.

Before we go any further, I would like the Commander in Chief himself to answer the question----so we all know.

27 posted on 10/23/2013 11:00:30 AM PDT by Rapscallion (What he calls "transforming" is actually destroying.)
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To: I am Richard Brandon

EVERYTHING this Bozo is doing smacks of a ‘Silent Coup’. They know that they have the media and education, and various government department like the EPA worship him.


And we must remember that most Progressives thought there was nothing wrong with the IRS targeting conservative groups. Progressives would be good Useful Idiots/Dupes in a Dictatorship.


28 posted on 10/23/2013 11:01:36 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: kristinn

Hitler and the the Bolshevics did the same thing as they were
taking control of their countries.


29 posted on 10/23/2013 11:01:59 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: Bernard Marx

It’s obvious. I hope you were being facetious.


30 posted on 10/23/2013 11:03:17 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I imagine they’ve been monitoring all communications of key personnel for some time and are clearing out potential dissenters that won’t turn their weapons on citizens. Look to see Muzzies, Nazi feministas, and LBGT’ers fill their shoes.


31 posted on 10/23/2013 11:03:51 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: gaijin

I think US soldiers WILL follow their bad orders and I think palaver about WOLVERINES! Type scenarios is mostly an adult version of flipping through comic magazines.


32 posted on 10/23/2013 11:04:20 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: mountainlion

I’m taking Chinese lessons. They may get some of our National Parks to pay off the US debt they own. They will move millions of Chinese into them and the one child rule will definitely not be there


33 posted on 10/23/2013 11:05:19 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Uncle Miltie

vs M1s, Apaches, Bradleys, Drones, etc.

Hey, I’m with you on this, but of the 300m+ guns you cite how many are individual gun owners? 35-40% of the country? that comes to around 105m.

of these how many are libs?
how many of these are ar/ak type platforms?
pistols?
collections?

And a lot of that is probably concentrated in southern and midwestern states.

i know there is an article on FR that asks what can a pistol do and i support that.

i’m just saying the 300m+ figure you cite may not be all that intimidating if we break it down.

btw...i hope we never have to find out.


34 posted on 10/23/2013 11:05:57 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: tillacum

Stalin purged 20,000 Red Army commanders in 1937, from Tukhachevsky on down, prior to his purge of the Party. He cleared the decks of everybody who wasn’t directly beholden to him for his position.


35 posted on 10/23/2013 11:08:01 AM PDT by Argus
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To: Stillwaters

ping


36 posted on 10/23/2013 11:08:55 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: dennisw

I think Bill Clinton signed the national parks over to the UN and and named them Heritage sites. The Chinese would have to go through the UN


37 posted on 10/23/2013 11:09:47 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: laplata
Progressives would be good Useful Idiots/Dupes in a Dictatorship.

They're good during the establishment of a dictatorship. Afterwards, they're a major PITA and are among the first to get marched up to the wall. So that's a silver lining, at least.

38 posted on 10/23/2013 11:12:19 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: kristinn

These are the ones who were most likely to uphold the oath they all took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC, thus removing a possible threat to his imperial reign....


39 posted on 10/23/2013 11:19:00 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: Dr.Deth

They’re good during the establishment of a dictatorship. Afterwards, they’re a major PITA and are among the first to get marched up to the wall. So that’s a silver lining, at least.


That’s why they’re Useful Idiots.

I got to know Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector. He was very informative on such things.


40 posted on 10/23/2013 11:20:04 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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