Showing posts with label Jim Mattis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Mattis. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

The brazen military industrial complex is asserting today that the Judicial Branch is civilian Commander in Chief, not the Executive

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  These people are a threat to the constitution: Signatories : Former Secretaries of Defense Dr. Ashton Baldwin Carter William Sebastian Coh...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Milley's a POS, but so is Trump

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 Trump later said he picked Milley to spite Mattis, who has since criticized his former boss.  More .
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Donald Jeb! Trump decides to remain in Syria after all, which was a funny way to get rid of Mattis

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#crackerdog #25thAmendment
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Laugh of the Day: SECDEF Jim Mattis resigned effective Feb. 28, 2019 to ensure a smooth transition, Trump boots him effective Jan. 1 after reading what he said about him

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Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis Resigning in February After criticism, Trump pushes out Mattis sooner than planned  
Friday, December 21, 2018

Justin Raimondo on General Mad Dog Mattis resignation: We got the leaker

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And maybe his conduit, too.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Remember when ricin was sent to Trump, Mattis, Wray, Haspel, Wilson and Richardson in early October?

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You know, to the president, the defense secretary, the FBI director, the CIA director, the secretary of the US Air Force, and the Chief ...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

SECDEF Mattis explicitly states US troops in South Korea are not a bargaining chip in North Korea denuclearization talks

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Quoted here : However, Defense Secretary James Mattis said recently at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that any discussion about ...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

China is so full of crap, says US freedom of navigation patrols constitute "militarization" of South China Sea

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Here : Senior Col. Zhao Xiaozhou, of the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Sciences, suggested in a question to Mr. Matt...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Hooah: 2nd Fleet, deactivated in 2011, to resume operations to protect East Coast and North Atlantic

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Read all about it, here . The article from WaPo is confused about the US Fleet. The 7th Fleet is Japan-based. The Italy-based Fleet ...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

SECDEF Mattis has called the joint missile strike on Syria a "single shot", not an opening salvo in a war

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Reported here : Mattis said the strike was a “single shot” aimed to deter the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons. Whether the U...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Why was General Robin Rand promoted and put in charge of our nuclear missiles after he failed to report Texas shooter's crime to FBI?

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From the story here in The Chicago Tribune: The Air Force lapse in the Devin P. Kelley case, which is now under review by the Penta...
Monday, June 19, 2017

SECDEF Mad Dog Mattis is mad as a hatter: Imposes mandatory transgender training on the US Army

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From the story here : As part of the Pentagon’s attempt to create an accepting environment for transgenders, the Army held a session T...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Laugh of the Day: Chris Plante says SECDEF Ashton Carter, unlike Mattis, never made it to Rolling Thunder because . . .

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. . . he was too busy organizing his sock drawer.
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Obama hollowed out the military and SECDEF Mattis wants to keep those responsible in place at DOD

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Kimberley Strassel delivers the bad news here : President Trump promised to rebuild our hollowed-out military, a cause as urgent as an...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Bring back waterboarding, Mad Dog Mattis can go have his beer and a cigarette

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James E. Mitchell, here : It is understandable that Gen. Mattis would say he never found waterboarding useful, because no one in the m...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

It's disturbing that prospective SECDEF Mattis says our hands are tied by the Iran deal when it's not a treaty

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Even worse that he wants to predicate US action on prior European action. What is "European" action? And when have they EVER act...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

If #NeverTrump Bill Kristol endorsed General Mattis for a 3rd party run in April, I'm against him as Trump's pick for Defense

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Bill Kristol, here : Jim Mattis happens to be a social liberal. He's more liberal than I am. He's very concerned about the deb...