Take a bow Gen. Milley
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I'm not surprised by that article. In the least
I'm sorry but screw gen. Milley.
Where was all this information at the second impeachment proceedings?
Just like John Bolton at the first.
All these people were too cowardly to stand up when it counted.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad there were adults in the room. I just wish they had the courage of their convictions.
Woodward had the info as well
true, but he's a journalist, specifically holding the info to write a book. There was no presence, that was clear.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, on the other hand, sat through an impeachment proceeding to remove a POTUS who was not fit for office, knowing full well he was not fit for office, and knowing full well he had the info to find Trump guilty. And he did nothing.
Instead he tells Woodward????
tsubaki
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Absolutely. If someone is so unsafe you phone the country he is likely to declare war on and promise to call and warn them if he does declare war, that person needs to be removed from office.
If not, Milley needs to be removed as a traitor.
If Milley speaks up do you really think it would have changed the outcome of the 2nd impeachment? I don't.
It's not like all the GOP in congress and the entire cabinet didn't know Trump was unfit.
That was probably part of Milley's thinking. Milley would just be replaced with some one like Flynn (but still in uniform).
That doesn't make it right - and worse, it's more norms broken. What's to stop someone with the political slant of say Flynn doing similar in the future.
Yea, I get that. He surely weighed up the consequences, knew that his information might not guarantee a guilty verdict. But I believe there was an air of "yea, Trump is nuts but just leave it to us, we'll steer the ship home". That's not how democracies work. He knows that.
And if you're going to undermine the president, why not take that with you to your grave, why tell Woodward?
He could have made his info public, in the wake of 6/1 it would have led to a few more republicans finding Trump guilty and heaped more pressure on those remaining ones.
Biden was already in office for the second impeachment trial. Why release this news in September, not February. I just don't get it.
As a custom/rule, active duty military avoid politics - especially explosive stuff like an impeachment.
Further, I agree with others. Even if called to testify to the Senate and Milley told the country Cheeto was entirely unfit and unstable the right-wing noise machine would have activated in defense of TFG and the Senate GQP would have folded.
Statesmanship is a lost concept. Especially on that side of the aisle.
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Exactly. The only people who actually “needed” to hear what Milley had to say were the very same people who would have just covered their ears and avoided listening. By January, no new information could possibly have come to light that was ever going to change ANYONE’s mind about Trump.
The Milley business is another reason to beef up the War Powers resolution with a special section on nukes.
Martin Alvito
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Which is precisely the difference between 1974 and now.
Back then, the media was a reasonably honest broker and brought pressure across the board to bear on Sen. Baker. That led Baker into the Oval Office to inform Nixon that he did not have the votes in a Senate trial, which led to Nixon's resignation.
I have three monitors. Every once in a while, I like to run the following exercise. I put the homepage of a left-leaning outlet like CNN on the left monitor. I put the BBC's American headlines in the center. I put Fox News on the right.
The reality picture on the rightmost monitor almost never resembles the other two. The BBC's news-only headlines usually only resemble CNN's on the topmost line items. After that, CNN devolves into opinion.
Fiscal conservatism, drain the swamp, blah blah blah...
Even the clearly biased Cyber Ninja's believe Biden won Arizona
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