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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Congressman Urges U.S. Generals To Resign In Protest Of Obama's Foreign Policy
This is getting dangerously close to treason and sedition:
GOP Congressman Urges U.S. Generals To Resign In Protest Of Obama's Foreign Policy
As U.S.-led airstrikes continue Friday near the Syrian border with Iraq, it's hard to imagine what would make the situation worse than the military suddenly losing all its generals.
But that is exactly what Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) told a group of voters he wants to see happen, the Colorado Independent reported.
"A lot of us are talking to the generals behind the scenes, saying, 'Hey, if you disagree with the policy that the White House has given you, let's have a resignation,'" Lamborn said Tuesday, adding that if generals resigned en masse in protest of President Barack Obama's Middle East policy, they would "go out in a blaze of glory."
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As U.S.-led airstrikes continue Friday near the Syrian border with Iraq, it's hard to imagine what would make the situation worse than the military suddenly losing all its generals.
But that is exactly what Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) told a group of voters he wants to see happen, the Colorado Independent reported.
"A lot of us are talking to the generals behind the scenes, saying, 'Hey, if you disagree with the policy that the White House has given you, let's have a resignation,'" Lamborn said Tuesday, adding that if generals resigned en masse in protest of President Barack Obama's Middle East policy, they would "go out in a blaze of glory."
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Tell me what the media would have done about a Democratic Congressman urging generals to resign in 2003, not to mention the calls for arrest by members of the GOP.
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GOP Congressman Urges U.S. Generals To Resign In Protest Of Obama's Foreign Policy (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Sep 2014
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applegrove
(131,073 posts)1. Treason!
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. The GOPukers are really demons in disguise.
They seem to want death and destruction for all mankind.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)3. Actually it isn't "dangerously close" at all
At least as far as sedition is concerned it's there.
se·di·tion
siˈdiSHən
noun
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
synonyms: rabble-rousing, incitement to rebel, subversion, troublemaking,
Perhaps AG Eric Holder could finally do the right thing, arrest this POS and send a message that if we're going to be at war this kind of shit will not be tolerated. Dream on.
gopiscrap
(24,593 posts)4. Sunds to me that this repuke needs to be charged with sedition
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)5. Treason during war time.. this HAS TO BE A CRIME
Where are the arrests?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)6. Notice that HE does not offer to resign in protest.
Lochloosa
(16,686 posts)7. Let's have some names Mr. Lamborn.
Just which Generals are you talking to "behind the screens"? I call BS
Edit to add: you vile piece of shit.
otohara
(24,135 posts)8. Colorado Springs Has A Lot of Retired Generals
his district and full of Obama haters.