Republicans aim their fire at the military
Perhaps nothing Republican lawmakers do anymore should come as a surprise, but their treatment of Gen. Mark A. Milley on Tuesday opened a new front in the war against civilized norms.
Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee didnt just give a dressing down to the nations top soldier about the Afghanistan pullout; they assassinated his character and impugned his patriotism, accusing him of aiding the enemy and of placing his own vanity before the lives of the men and women serving under him.
And this is the man President Donald Trump nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man who donned fatigues and stood with Trump during his infamous Bible photo op after the gassing and removal of peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Square.
But now Milley has been portrayed in the Bob Woodward and Robert Costa book Peril as reassuring an anxious Chinese military that Trump did not plan to attack China an undertaking done at the request of Trump political appointees, Milley told the committee.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) found perfidy in Milleys de-escalation attempts. Youre giving a heads-up to the Chinese Communist Party, he alleged.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/28/mark-milley-senate-hawley-blackburn/
Bunch of feces flinging monkeys.
Bev54
(9,963 posts)a committee hearing, for years. They don't even know what that means.
underpants
(182,279 posts)IMHO
I had it on all morning and the Repub attacked but with not much traction.
Milleys response to Sullivan
"I know, I am certain, President Trump did not intend on attacking the Chinese and it is my directed responsibility to convey presidential orders and intent," Milley said.
Clash City Rocker
(3,379 posts)So why shouldnt they attack Milley?
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)and what precipitated the call. Republicans are taking advantage of an unclassified setting, insinuating Gen Milley was aiding Commies when they know there were legitimate reasons for the call.
TomSlick
(11,035 posts)The GQP will attack any person or institution that is not appropriately fawning toward TFG.