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As Americans, we should be frightened — deeply afraid for the future of the nation -- 02/21/20 - William H. McRaven, Navy, Admiral (r)

[AJs Dad @AJsDad4227]

@ErinBrockovich https://t.co/GtvQogWc7f

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

What corporate America really thinks

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@23sabres So far you're spot on.

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@SenTedBuddNC Do you think he's insane?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Manner: I have indications that many targets that were recommended by the Secretary of Defense were rejected by Centcom, that they were civilian targets. It's secondhand knowledge.

Wallace: You are hearing secondhand that Pete Hegseth has ordered strikes, that centcom commanders have refused?

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@WhiteHouse You realize he's insane right?

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@SenTedBuddNC @SecMullinDHS @DHSgov Simply disgusting that you haven't spoken out against Trump's threats of war crimes than genocide. How do you look your kids in the eye?

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

2pm: these edibles ain’t shit

6pm:

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

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@SenTedBuddNC @SecMullinDHS You're such cowards you won't even answer the phone at your DC line anymore

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@NCGOP Your leader's message

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@RepDavidRouzer Or.... 25th now.

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@SenatorBerger Or.... 25th now.

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@SenTedBuddNC Or.... 25th now.

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@MeidasTouch He doesn't like pilots who are captured

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one.

A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it.

The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link.

General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.”

Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon.

Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to.

The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone.

Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody?

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Sam Youngman @samyoungman]

Must be awful to be that pilot and know that your commander-in-chief only likes pilots who don't get shot down.

[AJs Dad @AJsDad4227]

@DecodingFoxNews Closed captions.

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@Phil_Lewis_ He was just asking how much a pardon is.

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@RonFilipkowski Oh like you don't. 😂

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@SecWar You'd be a Blue Falcon but I don't think you have a buddy.

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Not to be dramatic but it feels like the world is ending :)