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Rep. Seth Moulton tells military to question Trump's orders
military.com ^ | January 9, 2020 | Hope Hodge Seck

Posted on 01/10/2020 11:19:20 AM PST by bus man

A lawmaker who earned the Bronze Star during combat in Iraq as a Marine officer is denouncing President Donald Trump's foreign policy as "rudderless," and calling on active-duty military officers to question the orders they're getting from the commander in chief and refuse to follow them if they're not lawful.

Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat and former presidential candidate who ended his White House bid in August, made the remarks in a speech at the Atlantic Council on Thursday, a day after Trump triumphantly addressed the nation and announced that Iran seemed to be backing down from hostilities.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: domesticenemy; gettherope; hanghim; massachusetts; military; orders; sedition; sethmoulton; treason; trump
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I wonder how he would feel if his presidential aspirations had been successful, and someone else was publicly calling for soldiers to question HIS orders.
1 posted on 01/10/2020 11:19:20 AM PST by bus man
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To: bus man

Who?


2 posted on 01/10/2020 11:20:12 AM PST by EEGator
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To: bus man

You don’t ever question your CIC’s orders.


3 posted on 01/10/2020 11:20:47 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: bus man

Sedition.


4 posted on 01/10/2020 11:21:11 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat...

I stopped right there.


5 posted on 01/10/2020 11:22:05 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: bus man

The punk misses Barack. BWAHAHAHAHA....


6 posted on 01/10/2020 11:22:12 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: bus man

Oh. A Demiranian.


7 posted on 01/10/2020 11:22:30 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: bus man

That should show the USMC the quality of people they get when they recruit out of Harvard.


8 posted on 01/10/2020 11:22:30 AM PST by atomic_dog
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Sedition punishable by firing squad...what a complete fool.


9 posted on 01/10/2020 11:22:34 AM PST by scott says (Psalm 1)
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To: bus man

“a Massachusetts Democrat” That explains why he’s inciting to mutiny. Throw him in jail.


10 posted on 01/10/2020 11:24:44 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: bus man

Someone should have questioned the Kenyansian Usurper’s orders to transgenderize the military.


11 posted on 01/10/2020 11:25:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bus man

Counseling to commit a criminal offence. Who will charge this piece of refuse?


12 posted on 01/10/2020 11:27:02 AM PST by Lent
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Don’t these idiots realize that the CiC can recall them to active duty?


13 posted on 01/10/2020 11:29:06 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Republican Party: Freeing Americans since 1865.)
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To: bus man

Bad idea...

   find a new line of work.


14 posted on 01/10/2020 11:29:38 AM PST by ptsal
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This just hot air aimed at the ignorant (read Liberals)

A soldier never has to follow an unlawful order.

The part about questioning an order better happen AFTER the order is carried out or else someone has stepped in deep doody and it ain’t the person who issued the order.


15 posted on 01/10/2020 11:29:40 AM PST by billyboy15
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What a balless wonders to advocate treason from the safety of his legislative immunity to those actively covered by the UCMJ.

What was the Bronze Star for? Fetching the General’s martinis In a combat zone?


16 posted on 01/10/2020 11:30:12 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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Why is it every former marine officer in politics turns out to be a snake who thinks behaving dishonorably is good? Kelly, Mattis, this guy. Those first two seemed rock solid until it turned out they were secret “resistance” plants.


17 posted on 01/10/2020 11:30:28 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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I guess that he wasn’t really serious when he raised his right hand.


18 posted on 01/10/2020 11:30:30 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

An Officer can be recalled at any time. Does not apply to enlisted.
The officer can be recalled and charged.


19 posted on 01/10/2020 11:32:15 AM PST by encm(ss) (Diesel Boats Forever!)
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To: bus man

Yeah, all the front-line grunts know all of the intelligence briefings received by the President and his advisors. /sarc

I’ll bet you followed your own advice, too, huh Buck Private Moulton. . . / more sarc


20 posted on 01/10/2020 11:32:29 AM PST by RatRipper
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