Eric Chewning, chief of staff to the secretary of defense, will leave the Defense Department at the end of the month, the Pentagon announced Monday.
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Chewning’s departure comes after a series of senior Pentagon officials announced their resignations in recent weeks.
Nothing to do with the crazy happening on Trump/Pompeo/Esper’s orders, I’m sure.
Here’s the so-called “reasoning” for why they’re calling it an imminent threat.
Basically, certain hawks have been using “well, I just have a FEELING” as an excuse for killing people, and then arguing that their feelings make it legitimate.
No doubt about that. He was actively plotting in the region to take ‘big action’
I believe he suposed to say "bigly action’.
Note that even Bibi is calling it an assassination.
Both are adults**.
Bad for Trump
**see Pelosi, Nancy. Speaker, United States House of Representatives
Suggested edit.
The rationale is being lightly seared on the reality grill.
According to NPR this morning, that was “a mistake.”
Now, I have to buy a new radio to replace the one I tried to flush down the can.
In other words, “We got nothing”.
It’s been stated by the Iraqi PM that Soleimani was there on a mission to help de-escalate the tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. If true, Trump has hit a new level of insane abuse of power.
They couldn’t do any of this shit if they had to send someone out to take press questions every day.
This is dictatorship, folks.
Which fuel the chaos and keeps the media spinning like a tazmanian devil.
The ‘imminent threat’ for the GOP is Grump’s pending impeachment trial in the US Senate.
Qualities that are completely alien to the likes of Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Barr, and the rest of Trump’s sycophantic lemmings.
“No doubt about that. He was actively plotting in the region to take ‘big action,’…
Pompeo is beginning to sound like his linguistically-challenged Boss.
“prove to us that by taking out the second most powerful political figure inside Iran, they are preventing more attacks rather than inspiring additional attacks.”
This is not measurable goal. The simple fact that Netanyahu is rapidly distancing himself and Israel from this fiasco shows how reckless this action was. The only thing Trump was seeking was to change the news cycle and look tough, and since he has accomplished this, at least among the feeble-minded, he views it as a win-win.
Schiff is working on bringing that out.
Oh how delicious it would be if two new Articles of Impeachment were added.
"He was actively plotting in the region to take ‘big action,’ as he described it,
that would have put dozens if not hundreds of American lives at risk.
We know it was imminent.
This was an intelligence-based assessment that drove our decision making process.”
“But can’t offer a shred of evidence.” continued U.S Secretary of Horrible F^cking Lying.
Ten total, five IRGC (counting Soleimani) and five Iraqi members of the PMF.
This information is not actually very hard to find.