How dare you suspend helicopter pilots saying hello to that old lady in Nashville!
One less person saying “no” to a land invasion of Iran :(
I’d really like to know what illegal order he wouldn’t follow that got up whiskey Pete’s nose. Maybe it will all come out at the trials that will eventually have to happen.
Maybe they’re going to actually order bombing desalination plants like they’ve threatened. A clear war crime that any self respecting soldier should want nothing to do with.
Maybe it will all come out at the trials that will eventually have to happen.
Christ I wish I had your optimism.
I’m honestly more interested to meet a service member that says “no, thats an illegal order, fuck you” instead of gracefully resigning and minimizing the problem, while clearing the way for a sycophant to step in.
Never discount the possibility that hegseth is just trying to scapegoat him instead too.
“Look, I know what you’re asking me to do, but Im not going to commit fucking war crimes just because your boss has an addiction to raping literal children!”
“OUT! OUT RIGHT NOW!!”
If he had integrity, he wouldn’t step down.
Anyone that stands up to facists by “getting out of the way” is a piece of shit.
Stay and make them waste time effort and money getting rid of you, but all these shitbags care more about their retirements than their country. And the bars so low that idiots applaud them as heroes for self preservation.
Fuck everyone involved in this shitshow.
For the sake of argument let’s say he did that and intentionally slowed things down as much as possible.
Fast forward four years from now. You’re a DOJ prosecutor under the new administration looking to level charges against high ranking military officers who gave the green light to some of Trump’s war crimes.
How could you tell the Army Chief of Staff did what he could to prevent those crimes? He didn’t resign. He didn’t publicly denounce the actions or refuse to pass the orders down the chain of command (if he did he would have been canned). He didn’t give his story to a journalist or recommend to Congress that Trump be impeached. In the eyes of the law what is the difference between him and the General he relays the President’s orders to, or the soldier who carries them out?
This kind of thing is public. If he was fired, then the current Admin could claim he did something else, or obfuscate the matter. This way he can retain some control over the narative without having to deal with the looming cliud of “fired” over his head.
Cleaning house just before the illegal orders start flying off of trumps desk.
Before? They’ve been flying for quite a while now.
