Joint Chiefs of Staff forced to apologize!
Apr 21, 2015 12:34:09 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 12:34:09 GMT -6
It's about time one of these cold, heartless bastards was made to apologize directly to who they tear the heart out of, for political gain.
I can't say how many times I heard people from Military leaders to political hacks to reporters with extensive combat experience behind them say 'As goes Ramadi, goes Iraq....during the actual 10+ years of U.S. combat operations.
Now...Ramadi is just..what? a little town on the road of life? A little berg among the trivial bergs of no importance? ....or is it because ISIS is kicking our ass across the country like its a sport for points ...we have to outright lie about tactical or strategic importance assigned to cities?
Well... he lied, as they died, and got busted like a Private late from leave....and he deserved it.
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I think he is one of the 'new breed' of Military leaders. Men who are "Military" about as much as a political appointee "is" whatever position they won through appointment. He obviously has FAR higher political concerns than military ones ...and men like him, in my view, are why ISIS is kicking our asses all over the Iraqi sand right now....while we brag about a dozen airstrikes into sand dunes and wadis.
Perhaps when we get military leadership who are military FIRST ...and just follow the orders of civilian leaders, not kiss their ass to become one themselves? Apologies like this, to the families of far greater men than he, won't be necessary any longer. Comments like this wouldn't have been made by a warrior, in my view. It took a scumbag politician, dressed up to play like a warrior.
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Gen. Martin Dempsey is used to giving orders, but it was an apology he issued Monday to Debbie Lee, after the Gold Star mom complained that the joint chiefs chairman trivialized the Iraqi town where her son became the first Navy SEAL to die in the Iraq War.
Lee, whose son Marc was killed in Ramadi in 2006 after a fierce firefight with insurgents, told FoxNews.com she was "in tears" Friday after listening to comments by Dempsey in which he said the imminent fall of Ramadi to ISIS militants was "not symbolic in any way."
Lee, whose son Marc was killed in Ramadi in 2006 after a fierce firefight with insurgents, told FoxNews.com she was "in tears" Friday after listening to comments by Dempsey in which he said the imminent fall of Ramadi to ISIS militants was "not symbolic in any way."
I can't say how many times I heard people from Military leaders to political hacks to reporters with extensive combat experience behind them say 'As goes Ramadi, goes Iraq....during the actual 10+ years of U.S. combat operations.
Now...Ramadi is just..what? a little town on the road of life? A little berg among the trivial bergs of no importance? ....or is it because ISIS is kicking our ass across the country like its a sport for points ...we have to outright lie about tactical or strategic importance assigned to cities?
Well... he lied, as they died, and got busted like a Private late from leave....and he deserved it.
“You, sir, owe an apology to the families whose loved ones' blood was shed in Ramadi,” she wrote. “You and this administration have minimized that Ramadi could fall, now you are minimizing that it is falling, but you Sir WILL NOT minimize the sacrifice my son Marc Lee made or any of our brave warriors!”
I think he is one of the 'new breed' of Military leaders. Men who are "Military" about as much as a political appointee "is" whatever position they won through appointment. He obviously has FAR higher political concerns than military ones ...and men like him, in my view, are why ISIS is kicking our asses all over the Iraqi sand right now....while we brag about a dozen airstrikes into sand dunes and wadis.
Perhaps when we get military leadership who are military FIRST ...and just follow the orders of civilian leaders, not kiss their ass to become one themselves? Apologies like this, to the families of far greater men than he, won't be necessary any longer. Comments like this wouldn't have been made by a warrior, in my view. It took a scumbag politician, dressed up to play like a warrior.
(sigh)