Top Armed Services Republican 'dismayed' at Trump comments on military leaders

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday it is wrong for President Trump to question the motivation of U.S. military leaders.

Asked at an event hosted by Defense News on Wednesday whether it was right for Trump to suggest Pentagon officials send troops to war because they are beholden to the defense industry, House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said flatly, “no.”

“As a matter of fact, I've been a little dismayed at what's happened in the past few days,” continued Thornberry, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this term.

“I know the president says things for effect a lot, but to have a commander in chief question the motivations of military leaders and basically say they're in it for themselves is wrong, and it gives our adversaries an opening. Even if you think it, you shouldn't say it.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/515638-top-armed-services-republican-dismayed-at-trump-comments-on-military-leaders

[orwell]

1. Wow...

...that's a hard hitting condemnation...

Way to go out on a limb Mac...

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Where are the Senators NOT retiring?

[BusyBeingBest]

3. THIS is what "dismays" him. Not the nation falling apart in

pretty much every way it COULD fall apart. No, an insult to the honor of Pentagon brass. Fuck off, clown.

[VWolf]

4. Paging Susan Collins ...

Request from Mr Thornberry for some of your "concern"

[agingdem]

6. throw in "disturbed" "problematic" "perturbed"

and maybe a harsh "oh my"...hey, Susie, your brother from another mother is calling...he needs to borrow your fainting couch

[jrthin]

7. You beat me to it. How Collins-esq.

[turbinetree]

5. Well that only took what 6 days to get an answer.................

but don't worry I got my taxpayer funded retirement ready for me..............and just think I voted to keep my leader in power during the Impeachment hearing and vote..................oh by the way your all suckers and losers................I got mine...............

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Trump is a disgrace

to the military, to law and order, to women, to racial justice, to economic justice, to sanity, to kids in cages, to regulation, to just everything.

That's what voters need to know.

Trump is a disgrace.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. "I've been a little dismayed..."

Go fuck yourself, Mac.

You know what Trump is, and you fully support his treason.

[llashram]

10. these enablers

are so cowardly and in it for themselves and the power and money they can skim from the system. I'm a vet, you know one of those "losers" and "suckers" called that by the Coward-In-Chief. And this POS Thornberry is a "little dismayed". They are all such goddamn COWARDS!!!

[beachbumbob]

11. got to make thee GOP own every word that trumps says and make them pay for it

[oldsoftie]

12. "if you think it, you shouldnt say it". Trump doesnt have that gene. Nt

[SWBTATTReg]

13. What's next, thoughts and prayers? Pathetic. A pathetic and cowardly GOP response, as usual.

[NNadir]

14. As dismayed as Susan Collins no doubt. N/t

[Aristus]

15. "Dismayed" is just a fancy, faux-literate way of saying "concerned".

Concern is cheap, you hamhock. Get up off your ass and do something about it...

[matt819]

16. "I've been a little dismayed. . . "

A little?

You fucking coward.

You should be outraged. You should be horrified. And you certainly took a long time to comment.

And, like the coward you are, you only said something because you're retiring.

Did I say this already? You fucking coward. I hope you live the rest of your life shamed and shunned. Though I doubt that will happen.

[kairos12]

17. Collins faxed him talking points.

[Backseat Driver]

18. WTF is wrong with these people?

"I know the president says things for effect a lot..."

What about what the grifter in chief and his protection squad (destructively/chaotically) DO for effect...a lot! SHAME ON YOU and YOUR FECKLESS GOP LEADERSHIP!

[IcyPeas]

19. I really thought (hoped) this story about the military

and "suckers" and "losers" would have had much more devastating consequences but it's already slipping from the headlines.

unbelievable.

[LisaM]

20. It's slipping out of the news cycle, probably not slipping at the Pentagon.

That said, I'm "dismayed" that the military is so in the pocket of the GOP that they consistently land us with these poor leaders, like Reagan, GWB, and Trump. I guess I'm glad if - for once - the wool has been pulled from their eyes, but it should not have come to this. Ever.

[nitpicker]

21. He's been sucking the military-industrial teat for years

https://www.texasobserver.org/mac-thornberry-defense-industry-2020-texodus-gop-trump/

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Like most committee chairs, Thornberry maintained close connections to the industry he was charged with overseeing. Over the course of his career, Thornberry raked in more than $1.6 million from the defense industry, including hundreds of thousands from top weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and Textron, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Those corporations all have major operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which is home to a booming defense and aerospace manufacturing sector. Textron’s subsidiary Bell and the aircraft giant Boeing have operations in Amarillo, which is the heart of Thornberry’s district. Last year, the two companies signed a $4.2 billion contract to build dozens of V-22 Ospreys, with most of the work being done in Fort Worth and some in Amarillo. With Thornberry on his way out, proponents of the military industrial complex will have to find a new champion in Texas.
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