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GOP congressman says he's urging American generals to resign rather than follow president's orders

Fri Sep 26, 2014 at 02:00 PM PDT
by Hunter


sedition (n): conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state

Rep. Doug Lamborn says he and like-minded House Republicans are trying to destabilize the American military in order to foil American foreign policy abroad. No really, he's bragging about it. [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/obama-generals-resign_n_5888434.html ]

[T]hat 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.”

Lamborn, it should be noted, is a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Remember the Bush years, when we were being told that not supporting the president during a time of war was tantamount to hating America, and that we had to "watch what we say," and American intelligence agencies were monitoring anti-war groups like the Quakers under the suspicion that they might damage the war effort.

If you're meeting with American military generals and telling them to quit en masse to be able to undermine the president's ability to conduct military operations, what the hell do you call that?

I'll wait. I am dying to hear the explanation for this one.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/26/1332639/-GOP-Congressman-says-he-s-urging-American-generals-to-resign-rather-than-follow-President-s-orders