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Topic: 5 U.S. generals in trouble rock military culture |
5 U.S. generals in trouble rock military culture
Associated Press, by Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns
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Posted By:vastrightwingconspirator, 11/18/2012 5:12:37 AM
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| When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pointedly warned young troops last spring to mind their ways, he may have been lecturing the wrong audience. The culture of military misconduct starts at the top. At least five current and former U.S. generals at the rank of one-star or higher have been reprimanded or investigated for possible misconduct in the past two weeks -- a startling run of embarrassment for a military whose stock among Americans rose so high during a decade of war that its leaders seemed almost untouchable. From adultery and malfeasance to potentially inappropriate emails, the four-star foibles
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/18/2012 5:35:40 AM (No. 9021481)
I´ve lost some respect for the military,not because of this gossip crap,because they´ve knuckled under to the left.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Keekng, 11/18/2012 5:40:06 AM (No. 9021483)
"Forced sodomy" and they are not sure there will be a court martial? Different strokes for different folks, I see.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Anner40, 11/18/2012 5:46:14 AM (No. 9021489)
Geez..we laud Clinton for all this stuff...didn´t he invent most of it....maybe a little payback to the ones who think Bill is king...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99, 11/18/2012 6:02:31 AM (No. 9021495)
FTA: "The culture of military misconduct starts at the top."
The "top" would be zippy. Perhaps Lolita and Bobby should be insisting that HE should be held accountable for HIS foibles, not to mention his crimes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Maybeth, 11/18/2012 6:05:09 AM (No. 9021498)
It´s always a disappointment to learn that our admired leaders break rules with immunity. We also see this protective buddy system in all three branches of our government .... Executive, Legislative and Judicial. So, to learn that generals ignore the rules which apply to everyone else comes as no surprise. .... That public accusations have become prevalent at this time, however, is very telling, since we had already begun to suspect this administration was taking steps to impugn the reputation of our soldiers and diminish the strength of our Armed Forces.
We should never doubt the strength and power of cornered villains.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 11/18/2012 6:13:55 AM (No. 9021504)
Obama time in the military.
The culture has degraded to gutter standards.
This began under bubba when ALL promotions had to be based on race and gender and NOT merit.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LAW428, 11/18/2012 6:16:16 AM (No. 9021507)
The generals at the top play the political game. The politicos in Washington provide the atmosphere. There you have it...we have decay and rot in Washington and it should be cleaned out, but America may not survive this time around.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dittohead, 11/18/2012 7:57:34 AM (No. 9021604)
The left´s cleansing of the military and replacement with their own.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
miceal, 11/18/2012 8:25:52 AM (No. 9021653)
When "they" allowed homosexuality to become the standard, I turned my back on these traitors and those above them. Reap what you sow and like someone much better them me said, "inherit the wind."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
John Moses Browning, 11/18/2012 8:38:51 AM (No. 9021684)
The article states that Obama has been "shocked" by the officers misconduct. Sure he is. I would guess that he is not "shocked" at all but ever so pleased to be decapitating the military command structure. The military is still a threat to him because they are patriotic Americans.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 11/18/2012 9:20:25 AM (No. 9021748)
This isn´t the military of Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing, that´s for sure. He´s was tough as nails and rid the Philippines of Muslims. When his his men wanted to wear all different kinds of cologne and scented aftershave, he came out with one uniform standard, Witch-hazel.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
voxpopuli, 11/18/2012 9:43:18 AM (No. 9021797)
just like Hitler, who got rid of all his older General Staff in the thirties and replaced them with all Yes Men.. it let´s the military know whose boss.. he, also, blackmailed them..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 11/18/2012 10:05:01 AM (No. 9021842)
And we believe every single word AP and the other media put out.
I thought that (a) Americans were considered innocent until proven guilty and that (b) we didn´t trust anything fed to us by the MSM.
If I were going to do a total Alinsky on our country, one of the first things I´d go after would be the establishment military leaders so that there´d never be any chance of a coup. Once replaced with my own picks, I´d feel a whole lot safer to proceed with the rest of my revolution.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
coldoc, 11/18/2012 10:30:20 AM (No. 9021883)
To become a general is to pass through an ethical portal into a realm of politics and lobbyists. All morals, ethics and principles are checked at the door.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 11/18/2012 10:46:07 AM (No. 9021911)
So, "Petraeus 2016" is still operative?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
gator, 11/18/2012 11:01:03 AM (No. 9021936)
The U.S. military was the last stand of tradition, honor, and moral courage and discipline in America. Now that that has been made into a liberal social experiment by the left, American greatness is indeed on its deathbed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
strikingviking, 11/18/2012 11:05:28 AM (No. 9021939)
Too many generals are taking orders from their privates.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 11/18/2012 11:29:20 AM (No. 9021992)
My concern with all this is why now? This nonsense has been going on for decades. Yet five generals are all of a sudden in trouble? The timing stinks like rotten fish.
This is not being done to the benefit of the military. I believe the deck chairs are being rearranged for a purpose which will prove in the near future to be very bad for this country and its citizens.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
TheGrandWahzoo, 11/18/2012 11:53:33 AM (No. 9022047)
You and I think alike #18.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Starlifter Nav, 11/18/2012 12:13:55 PM (No. 9022069)
Room for suspicion? Sure. But I don´t have any indication that this group includes those wh were somehow not toeing Zippy´s line. Wish I knew who was wearing blue jerseys, and who is wearing red-white-and-blue.
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