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rangerrebew

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Pentagon’s top general defends military as ‘apolitical’ after reported comments about Trump
Gen. Mark A. Milley repeated that the military should never be used in domestic politics
 
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Dan Lamothe
Yesterday at 4:26 p.m. EDT

The Pentagon’s top officials on Wednesday defended the military’s tradition of staying out of elections, after a new book reported that Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, feared former president Donald Trump would attempt a coup.

Milley repeatedly declined to confirm whether the comments attributed to him in the book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” are accurate, but said he and other senior officers upheld their constitutional obligations throughout the chaotic presidential transition.

“The military did not, and will not, and should not ever get involved in domestic politics,” Milley said, speaking at a Pentagon news conference. “We don’t arbitrate elections. That’s the job of the judiciary and the legislature and the American people. It is not the job of the U.S. military. We stayed out of politics. We’re an apolitical institution.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/07/21/mark-milley-trump-coup/

rangerrebew

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So, being involved in foreign policy, like when he told Trump bad things would happen if he didn't take out Soleimani is acceptable in his mind :shrug:?

Offline AARguy

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Somebody needs to give Milley the civilian CEO job he craves to shut him up.

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Somebody needs to give Milley the civilian CEO job he craves to shut him up.
I'm sorry, did you mean the job he craves OR the job he deserves

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Physician heal thyself.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.