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SHOCKER: Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan -- on 7th tour
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/2/104634/4...
Video: The Empire Strikes Barack!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lvc-azCXY
Imagine if Obama is president and tells the military to leave Iraq immediately and they refuse. Then you have your banana republic. And I think that is exactly the rough transition that Mullen is talking about. He also mentioned that the military brass has been talking about how they will handle this transition. I think that talk is about whether or not they should obey the orders of the President... or whether they should simply do what they want. After all, who can stop them?
Bush has abdicated his responsibility by continually saying he will do what his military leaders tell him--talk about a Banana Republic he has acted as he has in every job he every was appointed to---do nothing and see how it turns out, appoint a bunch of friends you can blame for the disaster when it occurs and stay on holiday as much as possible. Mullen needs to be relieved of his command or sent to our base in Antarctica where he can contemplate how best to keep his ass from freezing.
Someone need to remind this soldier boy he's supposed to work for American, not the GOP
What he is really saying is democracy is just too inconveniently unstable for him to do his job.
It's wierd, since 911 I actually have grown to fear my own leaders more than anything else.
Call me paranoid, but... WTF are they talking about now that's going to be a problem for the next President? This bodes not well.
The National Command Authority constantly works on a variety of scenarios to determine, among other things, when the command structure must be especially alert. There are often periods when the country is more vulnerable than other times. There are a lot of reasons why the weeksright before and right after an election require a heightened military vigil. AND ONE OF THE REASONS ISN'T THE TOP MILITARY OFFICER'S OPPOSITION TO HOLDING AN ELECTION. AND ONE OF THE REASONS IS NOT TO CREATE FEAR TO HELP OR HURT A POLITICAL CANDIATE OR PARTY.
There is a legitimate concern that a terrorist or a group of terrorists might attempt an act of terrorism close to the election in hopes of influencing the election. And since everyone involved is human, the transition from one administration to another is time when government staffs are distracted.
And Inauguration Day -- when most of the elected national government and many of the governors, along with the senior military leadership, Supreme Court justices, et al, are assembled outside the Capitol -- poses nightmare scenarios for those who have to plan for the worse.
I am even more alarmed since I wasn't quite attuned to the nuance as was "Truthman" in his comment above: "I think you guys are missing the point. I think what Mullen is saying is that the military might decide to oppose what the president (presumably a Democrat --that what poses the problems for the military) tells them to do.
Imagine if Obama is president and tells the military to leave Iraq immediately and they refuse. "
I now see Mullen's comments as an attempt at the "first shot - literally - over the bow" of an Obama administration. Although after eight years of the Cheney/Bush Cabal and considering that the state of support - even amongst the rank 'n file military - is so low for any of the neocon agenda or its sub-plots, there may be reason to hope for mass disobedience in any participation of such an attempted coup.
And where is Bin Laden? Do you think Bush and Cheney really want to capture him? If they do, then why haven't they? You probably think it has something to do with the Democrats because comments like yours lead me to believe that you think the whole mess in Iraq and Afghanistan is the fault of the liberals.
Wake up man.
Does he predict that it will be "more smooth" or "less smooth" than the past five years have been?
The man is whining to protect for his own selfish interests. His contract with the Military Industrial Complex might be terminated a year early. Boo-f*cking-hoo.
"Heck of a job, Mikey!"
Now, suddenly, as the GOP fear-and-smear machine kicks into high gear (cuz everyone knows they have nothing of substance to campaign on this year) we'll start getting the doses of fear from the entitled ones who will cling to power through multiple recounts if necessary. Just look at how the Washington governor's race played out last time, or how difficult it was to get rid of indicted Republican congressmen, or the way Republican senators caught soliciting prostitutes or toe-tapping their way to a toilet paper affair hang onto office like a royal dynasty. They don't believe they serve at the pleasure of the people - they believe they ARE the people, and the rest of us are just indentured servants placed on this earth to provide them comfort and luxury.
With perhaps a short period between administrations to re-establish stability...
I know it must be hard for you to read between the lines of our "leaders" since being a "Moderate" in this climate means you are afraid to take a stand in the direction of your country, but Mullen was saying that a new Administration, read:Democratic Admin., would hinder the Bush plans for the "War On Terror", read: Iran. Mullen is only trying to scare people like you into believing that Republicans are better on national defense. The same old shit.
For all the supposed partisanship of some of its leaders, the United States military is amazingly apolitical.
It is time for a not so bloodless coup d'etat
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&a...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122107J.shtml
http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/67385/
A number of you have said it -- it's time for the people to take their country back, or it soon will be too late. Impeach Bush and Cheney NOW!
BTW, I'm not really a "moderate". I'd like to call myself a "liberal" but real liberals don't want to be confused with the leftwing loons who produce blogs like Americablog and DailyKos and the leffwing loons who comment with juvenile logic, petty hatred and just plain lack of facts.
http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/poli...
I know many more generals and admirals than I do enlisted men and women and in a 35-year association with the military, including access to several of the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I never ever heard an officer of the United States armed forces object to free elections, even as a joke. After all, despite this blog's contempt for the military -- sadly echoed by most of you who add comments -- the men and women in our military are prepared to lay down their lives in defense of our freedoms. Including the right to vote!
As to the elections being a time of vulnerability, that is always true. We have elections in November, but the incoming administration doesn't come to power until January. Those three months are the period the Admiral is undoubtedly referring to; when any moves of the outgoing administration may, rightly, be viewed as attempts to limit the new administration's ability to implement their plans.
It is also possible, considering who appointed him, that he is attempting to do a little bit of politicking for the Republicans.
I guess it is nothing new to this Bog putting words in peoples mouths and all.
Were is it that this Mullen, is saying that we should stop the elections?
I figured most of the reactions would be what they are: Rather Normal from this blog.
"He Must Resign NOW!"
IMPEACH HIM!
What a NAZI!
What fucking trash is all I can say about it.
He is a Military man and he will follow the orders of the President and all officers appointed above him. As well as supporting and protecting the Constitution of the USA this is the oath he took and the same one that I took.
To put words in his mouth like this is beneath any person of respect.
But it dose say a lot for how much respect you have for the people who fight to defend your right to drag them down with crap like "sounds a little bit like he's questioning the fact that we're having elections"
I would be resentful but this is what I have come to expect so I have no real feeling about it at all.
you better just hope that people like him are still around when some one is trying to take your freedoms away.
I know for a fact he will still be there willing to fight to defend them. Regardless of the crap you say about him and all of us people who were a uniform.
Daniel McGillis HM2 (Thats Hospital Corpsman Second Class) United States Navy (Ret.)
I will breathe a huge sigh of relief when I see that man exit the White House - and I'm not convinced that is as inevitable as we would like to think.
This is goddamn scary.
Mullen should be hammered with questions, for clarification, by a watchful media. And he should be fired.
Fat fucking chance that either will occur.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Pen...