An Army general refused to reinstate an accused war criminal’s Special Forces tab, despite President Donald Trump issuing a pardon f0r the man.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1283794
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1283794
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When you lose your generals…
An honorable move, Lt. Gen. Francis M. Beaudette
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Just wait a little… he might still fold like origami paper the moment Trump tweets about it, it won’t be long before we know.
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INTRA-AGENCY MEMO
From: Lt. Gen. Francis M. Beaudette
To: Cadet Toadglans mit Bone Spurs
RE: Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn, Special Forces tab
Sir:
Fuck you!
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He’s being “persecuted” according to mommy and daddy…
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And a necessary one. A pardon, as we all know, is clemency for a crime committed. Accepting the pardon is admitting guilt—not just admitting commission of the act, but acceptance and knowledge that the act was a crime. Acceptance of a pardon by a commissioned officer in the armed forces of the United States should entail an automatic resignation of that commission, as Conduct Unbecoming.
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Trump tweeted in Gallagher’s case that “The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin.”
Does Warfighter have a special meaning in the SEALS, or is this some Trumpian term of endearment?
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Didn’t Donnie get the Jr. Warfighter merit badge in Cub Scouts? Or was that it the Faking Bonespurs one?
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That’s it. He understands the military on a comic-book level and that’s how he articulates it.
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I think it’s a marketing term in the war profiteering biz to avoid having to specify soldiers sailors airmen marines yadda yadda
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Golsteyn, reached for comment Thursday evening, said he had not yet heard about the decision until it was first reported by The Post. A few minutes later, he and his lawyer, Phil Stackhouse, said they had just received notification from the Army.
“I’m disappointed, but I’m not surprised,” Golsteyn said. “I was really hoping they would do the right thing.”
You first, murderer.
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@mattinpa @maximus
Thanks, I went with Trumpian term of endearment over some sort first person shooter video game designation.
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Warfighter in Trump terms means he thinks he has identified a suitable candidate for his prospective SS unit.
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It’s a new term. Apparently ‘warrior’ is too difficult to spell.
And the phrase “Combat veteran” - is too many letters.
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If he’s given a direct order by Trump to reinstate the tab, he’ll have to follow it (presuming the order is legal, it probably is legal for the president to order something like this). You don’t have any choice in following legal orders in the military, no matter how stupid they are…exceptions are made when you end up right (especially if lives are saved), but in a case like this there won’t be any choice. Except retirement on principle, that’s always an option, especially if Beaudette is near the end of his career and has his pension sorted.
It’s still amazing that Trump is pardoning and honoring people who committed war crimes…at least a segment of the military is incensed about it, though they all really should be, and it’s a bit worrying that they all aren’t.
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Actually this military-oriented publication “Task & Purpose” said it bubbled up as a unofficial generic term when the more sensible but less jazzy “service members” became necessary as the military diversified. “Service members” doesn’t evoke a heavily muscled skeleton biting the face off a bearded, turbaned terrorist while hosing down about 50 or 60 others with a .50-cal machine gun grasped in its brawny arms. Like I said, it’s a comic-book mentality, or a video game, if you will. Childish. As we know.
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Well Trump does know childish.
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I hope LTG Beaudette enjoys his retirement.
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"We see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families who suffered under Soleimani,” [Rep Collins, R-GA]
STFU, you tendentious, lying little prick.
ETA: Posted to wrong discussion. However, my point still stands.
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