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Pentagon Officers: We Quit if Trump Wins
The Daily Beast ^ | 12/16/15 | Nancy A. Youssef

Posted on 12/17/2015 9:08:34 AM PST by mrbinga

The plans of the next president are personal to the officers of the Pentagon, who are threatening to quit if The Donald becomes commander-in-chief.

Republican presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to build up the U.S. military if elected president.

But it is not clear he will have the experienced commanders within the ranks to do it.

In the halls of the Pentagon, there is a different plan afoot for the Trump presidency. Here, officers are privately contemplating what they would do should Trump become their commander-in-chief. And more often than not, they proclaim they will leave.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: defense; democrat; dod; elections; homos; immigration; nancyyoussef; nationaldefense; obamaflunkies; obamasfault; pentagon; poofters; trump; trumpwasright; usmilitary
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To: Hot Tabasco

They never do though. The only people I know who actually left when GWB was elected only stayed in Mexico 2-3 years. The wife told me “it wasn’t what we expected”. No shite.


321 posted on 12/17/2015 11:42:03 AM PST by Let's Roll (So much left-wing thought is playing with fire by those who don't even know fire is hot - Orwell)
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To: o_1_2_3__

Lol!


322 posted on 12/17/2015 11:43:41 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: LucyT

Awe gee! Trump won’t be able to say “you’re fired”!


323 posted on 12/17/2015 11:46:00 AM PST by hoosiermama
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To: mrbinga

Yeah, all the gay, transqueers or whatever they’re called, and Ohole appointees will leave. Despite the article’s tone, this actually a good thing..


324 posted on 12/17/2015 11:49:03 AM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: mrbinga

The Obama appointees speak. This might be the easiest and best way to be rid of them.


325 posted on 12/17/2015 11:54:10 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mrbinga

Thanks for the feedback guys. This is my first time posting an article here, I normally sit back and lurk but when I ran across this article I had to know what Freepers two cents on this was. Personally I find this gals article to be largely rubbish, after 8 years of Obama and his incompetent bumbling ways, further reductions in force structure, and obsession with social issues vis-a-vis the military one would think the top brass would be happy with anybody that isn’t Obama.


326 posted on 12/17/2015 11:55:49 AM PST by mrbinga
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To: mrbinga

Buh bye.

“By 2016 I will have my 20 years in and can get out of here,” one military official said, referring to the amount of time a service member needs to collect retirement pay.”

This is the group that needed to spend $1,000,000,000,000 to kill 30,000 talibans, or $33,333,333 - thirty-three MILLION per taliban.

Gentlemen, we appreciate your service. Enjoy your retirement, but - You’re fired!


327 posted on 12/17/2015 11:55:49 AM PST by JhawkAtty
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To: mrbinga
Making such a decision in private, then following through on it if necessary, is perfectly fine and honorable.

Making a public show of declaring it is inappropriate politicization of the military.

328 posted on 12/17/2015 11:55:49 AM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
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To: melancholy; LucyT; azishot

The URL is n my post is a 404 now! Wow! Quick scrubbing faster than going after terrorists on the Internet!

I am glad that the tranny bitches in # 297 would quit. I doubt it very much, though.

A GOP president should bring back all the *retired* great generals back on his first day in office!


329 posted on 12/17/2015 12:04:52 PM PST by melancholy
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To: TADSLOS

Ah, the Perfumed Princes little place house might get torn down, what a crying shame. If any of these do not quit if I were Trump and won I would wave bye to all of them anyway.


330 posted on 12/17/2015 12:10:14 PM PST by sarge83
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To: mrbinga

Good. America doesn’t need a bunch of whiny babies leading the military.


331 posted on 12/17/2015 12:11:26 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BeadCounter

I don’t think that I take this article very seriously. For one, the Pentagon is full of political military. Promotion is, often, a political event in this administrations tenure. Obama has fired many of the real soldiers that were left.

A mass exodus of politicians in uniform will be a good boost for real soldiers to move up into higher command ranks.


332 posted on 12/17/2015 12:12:35 PM PST by wjr123
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To: mrbinga

We’d lose a buncha chair force generals who have never been in a war we’ve fought to win?

I’m not seeing the downside here.


333 posted on 12/17/2015 12:15:22 PM PST by null and void (muslims don't kill people, Climate Change kills people!)
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To: mrbinga
They can join Faggots-Perverts-Democrats Anonymous...Good riddance...

chicoms overcome with grief...May move there long-term plans up...

334 posted on 12/17/2015 12:19:58 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Stingray51

Not a single officer named. Completely unverifiable.
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From the article:

Here, officers are privately contemplating

many said

some said

This Daily Beast correspondent has heard such sentiments from at least a dozen commanders in the past few months.

Such conversations can also be heard at common areas—in cafeteria lines and around lunch tables.

in the course of conversation, plots of a different kind emerge

These commanders are too focused on recovering from the last war to hear politicans talk about the prospect of a future one.

Plu-ease!

Last 2 Nanct Youssef articles:

Are Gitmo detainees being mistreated?
General Hides Gitmo Detainees
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/16/pentagon-hides-its-gitmo-detainees.html

Egypt’s Second Twitter Revolution
In 2011, Egyptian activists used social media to help overthrow a government. Now they use Twitter to find out what the new dictator has done with their missing friends.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/11/egypt-s-second-twitter-revolution.html


335 posted on 12/17/2015 12:20:11 PM PST by thouworm ("The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." --Orwell)
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To: mrbinga

not to worry..... many of those that abandoned Obama can return


336 posted on 12/17/2015 12:22:45 PM PST by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: paladinan

Obama had hundreds of our best and brightest fired. Obama promotes gays in the military. It seems to me that all that’s left are queers and losers, and if they want to leave, then that’s a good thing.


337 posted on 12/17/2015 12:26:18 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: mrbinga

Are these guys from the gay flanks?


338 posted on 12/17/2015 12:26:57 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Cobra64

There are still plenty of good men in the military.


339 posted on 12/17/2015 12:27:29 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: LucyT

That’s the only way they got there. What pieces of crap.


340 posted on 12/17/2015 12:45:48 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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