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How a Marine Lost His Command In Race to Baghdad (Mattis is the real deal)
WSJ ^ | CHRISTOPHER COOPER

Posted on 12/06/2016 3:58:04 PM PST by RoosterRedux

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To: rlmorel
and ordering other people to do things that may very well kill a lot of them.

or ordering other people to do things that you KNOW will kill many of them...

41 posted on 12/06/2016 9:40:13 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool

I don’t doubt that at all.

It is a terrible calculus to consider. And there are no guarantees.

Plus, if a thousand men are lost in a campaign, that is a thousand men. Rarely does a commander get credit for saving lives by being aggressive, because the other lives are not lost.


42 posted on 12/07/2016 3:17:45 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Iscool

Yes. It is difficult for me to comprehend how someone can do it, but that is sometimes what their job is.


43 posted on 12/07/2016 3:23:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: RoosterRedux; rlmorel; marktwain; Uncle Miltie; jz638

TREASON! Rep. Waltz Says DOD Told Him China Spy Balloons Crossed US During Trump Years But Gen. Mattis DID NOT TELL TRUMP – Thought He Was Too Aggressive (VIDEO)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4128988/posts

How Mattis Betrayed His Fellow Marines at the Behest of the Deep State
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4078580/posts

EXCLUSIVE: Trump reveals his list of Republican enemies including . . . ‘overrated general James Mattis’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4002874/posts

Former US Defense Secretary Mattis Suggests Trump Should Face Exile For Capitol Hill Chaos Says Trump should be “left a man without a country.”)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3922627/posts

Mattis didn’t disclose ties to China-boosting firm in column slamming Trump’s ‘America First’ policy
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3909909/posts

Mattis says he hopes Joe Biden takes ‘America First’ out of national security strategy
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3909092/posts

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About Col. Joe Dowdy

That time Mattis fired a commander in the middle of combat
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/that-time-mattis-fired-a-commander-in-the-middle-of-combat/


44 posted on 05/22/2023 11:25:18 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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I don't know what happens to military men when they become politicians, but Mattis didn't make the transition successfully.

I was wrong about him.

45 posted on 05/22/2023 12:45:19 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: RoosterRedux

You are OK. Mattis was, who disappointed us.


46 posted on 05/22/2023 2:15:19 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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