UPDATE: Oh shit ! Your liberal media
The new guy is a flat out Bushian psycho who is being brought in to expand the war to IRAN. If the Senate approves this nutbag it is “End Times” time.
For over a year now that the Joint Chiefs have been blocking the White House’s efforts to expand the war to Iran. No matter what you might think of Gen. Pete Pace, this really is TERRIFYING news, unless you crave a wider war in the Persian Gulf and South Asia.
Pace has been the most visible symbol of the push-back within the military against the Long War.
George W. Bush, in effect, just fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, USMC. This is unprecedented, as it is the first time the JCS Chair has not been reappointed.
Pace’s replacement will be Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen, if the Senate approves his nomination.
The Admiral appears to be a much more convinced true-believer than Pace. Mullen was quoted in an address earlier this month to naval personnel: http://starbulletin.com/…
“The enemy now is basically evil and fundamentally hates everything we are — the democratic principles for which we stand … This war is going to go on for a long time. It’s a generational war.”
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When a Republican is fired the style guide says use the word “replaced” – when a Democrat is fired the term is “fired”
Tags: Bush's FUBAR War
Every President has fired the Chairman of the JCS…
There is nothing illegal going on here…
These aren’t the droids you are looking for…
Here is the history of the JCS Chairman.
Past Chairmen of the JCS
General of the Army, Omar N. Bradley, 1949–1953
Adm. Arthur W. Radford, U.S. Navy, 1953–1957
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, U.S. Air Force, 1957–1960
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, U.S. Army, 1960–1962
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Army, 1962–1964
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, U.S. Army, 1964–1970
Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, U.S. Navy, 1970–1974
Gen. George S. Brown, U.S. Air Force, 1974–1978
Gen. David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force, 1978–1982
Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr., U.S. Army, 1982–1985
Adm. William J. Crowe, U.S. Navy, 1985–1989
Gen. Colin L. Powell, U.S. Army, 1989–1993
Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, U.S. Army, 1993–1997
Gen. Henry H. Shelton, U.S. Army, 1997–2001
Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, 2001–2005
I am telling you people this is just another preparatory move for the next phase of aggression in the middle east.
Target : Iran.
Force : nuclear.
They just need to stage yet another Pearl Harbor to re-wimpify the American public and get all those flags waving.
Sometime in September perhaps.
It is a popular month for shock and awe in the homeland.
Isn’t that also about the time the MSM and the Republicans have been saying the “surge will have to have worked” or Bush will lose Repub support?
They are just buying time for the next phase.
Damn I hope I am wrong.
I hope you are wrong too.
Too tell you the truth I am surprised it has not happened yet. In the lead up the the invasion of Iraq there were constant contrails of military aircraft over my home. Day in and day out.
Last year it started again.
Wait — Pearl Harbor was staged??
And you’re saying the US will use nuclear weapons in an assault in Iran?
Not only do you hope you’re wrong, your brain is wrong…
Yeah idiot. That’s what I meant. Pearl Harbor was staged.
Pearl Harbor is symbolic of a catalyzing event.
9-11 was like a Pearl Harbor except it was staged by a domestic enemy – the psychos who want perpetual war so they dominate the middle east and get rich in the process.
Al Qaeda doesn’t fit both these descriptions.
The neoconservatives do and are.
Idiot.
Admiral Mullen was not a big fan of the “surge”, check your sources.
June 9, 2007, 12:58AM
Mullen viewed as pragmatist on Iraq
Admiral agrees with Gates about giving current strategy a chance
By DAVID S. CLOUD
New York Times
RESOURCES
Pace out as top war officer WASHINGTON — By recommending Adm. Michael Mullen to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has chosen a low-key pragmatist without a well-established stake in the Iraq strategy to be the country’s senior military adviser.
Unlike the two previous chairmen, Mullen, 60, was not in a top Pentagon post when the Bush administration made the decision to invade Iraq. Those who know him say that if confirmed as chairman, he has little reason to stick with a policy if he decides it is not working.
“He will be pragmatic about Iraq,” said retired Adm. Robert Natter, who described himself as a close friend. “I know, because I’ve had long conversations about it with him.”
We are not going to go nuclear against Iran. The regime will implode before we do shoot one BB Gun.
Mike,
I sure hope you are right.
9-11 was like a Pearl Harbor except it was staged by a domestic enemy – the psychos who want perpetual war so they dominate the middle east and get rich in the process.
Oh, gee — Pearl Harbor wasn’t staged but 9/11 was. But I’m the idiot.
Dude, adjust the tinfoil.
The Religious Elite in Iran need to be pushed out by their own kind. Offering real support (i.e. – money, communication through the press, internet, or any other means by which the populace knows they have international backing) to the MAJORITY of Iranians that hate their current form of government is the way to go.
If you bomb them, they will wind up hating us more than their domestic oppressors. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
“If you bomb them, they will wind up hating us more than their domestic oppressors. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?”
All too familiar Prime Minister Chamberlain.
The majority of Iranians already KNOW they have international backing. They are just not able to do anything about the oppression because of the the military rule of the Religious Elite. A governmental crisis brought about my conflict with the US would bring down the terroristic government in short order.
The only remaining argument is would we have a power grab situation such as we have in SOME parts of Iraq now, or would the Iranians welcome the chance to be free? But with nukes floating around over there, it makes it a dicier situation than dropping Saddam.
WTF? Chamberlain? You don’t know what you’re fucking talking about.
Are you saying Iran blitzkrieged its neighbors? Expanded its dominion a thousand miles? And not waging war with Iran for reasons that never occurred equals the will of Neville Chamberlain?
If you get Russia and France on board for some serious political and economic sanctions, then you have Iran.
“Are you saying Iran blitzkrieged its neighbors? Expanded its dominion a thousand miles?”
So what do you think they will do should they acquire nuclear weapons. Do you have enough faith in the Ahmadinejad to believe he won’t employ what he gets at the first opportunity…considering he believes it IS his destiny to bring about the apocalypse.
We do not have the LUXURY of waiting for the Blitzkrieg. Once he has done that, there will not be anything left to “free”. So if you don’t find this idea troublesome, then you are following the path of Neville Chamberlain. But you have every right to disagree, at least until Iran gets its nukes.
And not waging war with Iran for reasons that never occurred equals the will of Neville Chamberlain?
von cracker,
Chris thinks that Saddam hid his plains in Iran during the first Gulf war… so it is not that big of a leap for him to go NAZI on you.
Chris thinks that Saddam hid his plains in Iran during the first Gulf war
How did Saddam hide fields that grow wheat and corn in Iran???
LOL…
“Chris thinks that Saddam hid his plains in Iran during the first Gulf war”
Apparently, so does wikipedia..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Scroll down to: “Iraq’s air force escapes to Iran”
I have seen elsewhere sources that believe Saddam ordered this, foolishly thinking that his long-time enemy would unite with him against the US.