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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.

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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: ridesthemiles

I believe that he can.


341 posted on 12/17/2015 12:47:23 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: LucyT

Ask officers that you know are conservative what they think the ratio is between conservative and lib officers and it might just shock you. NCOs are counter to that.


342 posted on 12/17/2015 12:50:42 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Reno89519

They want to quit, good riddance to them.

Concur..What ever became of.....”Service Above Self”.


343 posted on 12/17/2015 1:01:18 PM PST by AFret.
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To: mrbinga

Jeez, this woman must have found “military” folks to interview as they came out of gay bars or out of local ACLU offices. That’s sure not the military in which I served.


344 posted on 12/17/2015 1:02:39 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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To: mrbinga
"Pentagon Officers: We Quit if Trump Wins"

And they think that will save their sorry asses from being tried, convicted, sentenced, and hanged for giving aid and comfort to the enemy?

345 posted on 12/17/2015 1:11:49 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Either that or they have been on the pole smoking promotion list for for the past 7 years.


346 posted on 12/17/2015 1:21:20 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: mrbinga; ExTexasRedhead; xzins; Jet Jaguar; 2ndDivisionVet

Believe me on this: the vast majority of officers and enlisted currently serving in the military want Obama gone.

I am in communication with many officers (I am a retired officer myself). They cannot stand Obama, and they know he ruined the nation and the military.

I think this article is largely hyperbole, and quotes a select few.

Trump's rhetoric has shown great respect for the men and women of the military (current, retired, and disabled).

The headline may instantly grab people's attention, but I am telling you it is not the majority opinion - by a long shot.

347 posted on 12/17/2015 1:26:14 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: God luvs America

Obama gets replaced by a real American, and his rotten military brass quits. How is that not a win-win?


348 posted on 12/17/2015 1:28:06 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: mrbinga

Get rid of the trash and recall the good officers that obama urged!!!!!


349 posted on 12/17/2015 1:35:22 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Farmer Dean
This Daily Beast correspondent has heard such sentiments from at least a dozen commanders in the past few months.

"Yea right Nancy.Got any names for us or did you just make the whole thing up?"

My guess would be that these are commanders we can do without.

350 posted on 12/17/2015 1:35:41 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Medi</i>a: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: mrbinga

If this is found to be true, the should do the honorable thing and fall on their sword!


351 posted on 12/17/2015 1:35:54 PM PST by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: mrbinga
Really?

So no one is going to quit if High Tech Hillary, the B*tch of Benghazi, gets elected?

Trump isn't my cup of tea either, but I smell some "bovine scattology" here.

352 posted on 12/17/2015 1:37:23 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: mrbinga

Include them w the liberals who say they’ll the US if so and so wins. Liars.


353 posted on 12/17/2015 1:37:24 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
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To: Hot Tabasco

Sadly, no one will quit—its an empty threat only—same with the Hollywood crowd. They will dig in and fight like hell to make Trump a failure in every way. The Trump-Hate is strong—just as Reagan-Hate was long ago.


354 posted on 12/17/2015 1:45:16 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: mrbinga

I skimmed the article and was impressed by the fact that not a single active officer was identified by name.

That’s real courage, there.


355 posted on 12/17/2015 1:55:53 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: mrbinga
B. S. - Propagandist

Daily Beast Writer Partially Blames Bush For Bergdahl

Born to Egyptian parents, Youssef is a first-generation native to the Washington, D.C. area. She speaks fluent Arabic.

She spent four years covering the Iraq war and served as chief of the Baghdad bureau. Her work focused on the Iraqi citizens, centering on how the U.S. military strategy was influencing the social and political dynamic. Her pieces reflected on the everyday life of the Iraqi people and coverage of civilian casualties.

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Youssef penned a piece on November 13 that took apart Logan’s reporting and her hyper-reliance on the idea that al Qaeda took part in the Benghazi attacks and guarded the hospital where the Ambassador’s body was taken. “Logan claimed that ‘it’s now well established that the Americans were attacked by al Qaida in a well-planned assault,’” in her 60 Minutes feature, wrote Youssef. “But al Qaida has never claimed responsibility for the attack, and the FBI, which is leading the U.S. investigation, has never named al Qaida as the sole perpetrator,” she continued.

Youssef’s account is hardly unbiased. She continues, “Rather, it is believed a number of groups were part of the assault, including members and supporters of al Qaida and Ansar al Shariah, as well as attackers angered by a video made by an American that insulted Prophet Muhammad” (emphasis added). “The video spurred angry protests outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo hours beforehand.”

356 posted on 12/17/2015 2:02:08 PM PST by kcvl
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To: mrbinga

All of them need Article 15 hearings for engaging in politics while in uniform, under the aegis of their posts.

Every damned one.


357 posted on 12/17/2015 2:03:12 PM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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To: mrbinga

I call BS.

Servicemen respect strength, guts and a man with a spine.

The one’s threatening to quite are cowards and quislings, attached to the south-end of the PC-train.


358 posted on 12/17/2015 2:09:30 PM PST by Hulka
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To: paladinan
I’m a Cruz man, myself, but... if someone quits the military leadership because Trump is elected, did we really WANT him in the military leadership in the first place?

Quite frankly, no.

A lot of good guys were forced out because of o-bummer and the ones left include a number of people who should not be there.

My Nephew-in-law is currently a Marine NCO and the stuff he tells us is heartbreaking.

He is sticking it out and hoping for better in the future.

359 posted on 12/17/2015 2:16:01 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: mrbinga

There’s at least 100 eligible O6s for every O7 slot. A majority of them would be far better than the guy who got past the Obama administration’s PC wickets.


360 posted on 12/17/2015 2:35:06 PM PST by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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