LOL. You're so funny when you're having an epi'. Are you literally dribbling?Bwana wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:52 amJesus fucking wept, you really are clueless. Note the bits in bold.Screwdriver wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:19 pm Yes. They were secret at the time and if Milley had admitted to being a party to undermining the chain of command (Remembering the president is the commander in chief), he would have been sacked immediately. He is lucky not to have been charged with treason, that is almost certainly a court martial at least.
Trump did not start a war and who knows how such pressure would have affected US negotiations with the CCP. Meanwhile, it is worth reminding people just how evil and corrupt the CCP really is and that’s just what we know of their nefarious activities. What we Don”T know is almost certainly a lot worse!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/w ... dent-trump“I know, I am certain, that President Trump did not intend to attack the Chinese and it was my directed responsibility to convey presidential orders and intent,” Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. “My task at that time was to de-escalate. My message again was consistent: Stay calm, steady, and de-escalate. We are not going to attack you.”
Milley has been at the center of a firestorm amid reports he made two calls to Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army to assure him that the United States was not going to suddenly go to war with or attack China. Details of the calls were first aired in excerpts from the recently released book “Peril” by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
Some U.S. lawmakers have said Milley overstepped his authority, and they have called for President Joe Biden to fire him. Trump blasted Milley as treasonous, called him “a complete nutjob” and said Milley “never told me about calls being made to China.”
In his most extensive comments to date on the matter, Milley said that the calls on Oct. 30 and Jan. 8 were fully coordinated with the defense secretaries at the time as well as other U.S. national security agencies.
The calls came during Trump’s turbulent last months in office as he challenged the results of the 2020 election. The second call came two days after Jan. 6, when a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s White House victory.
Milley said the October call was made at the direction of then-Defense chief Mark Esper and the second was done at the request of the Chinese and coordinated with then-acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller’s office.
As far as the exit from Afghanistan is concerned, dotard set the stage by drawing down US troops and simultaneously negotiating the release of 5000 Taliban prisoners with fuckall in return. No Afghan officials were included in the deal making. There were 2500 troops remaining when Biden was sworn in. He increased that number to 7000 in the months troops remained.
Actually the stage for failure was set 2 decades earlier with Bush's decision to go in to Afghanistan. That little bumbling effort cost 2456 US military personnel, 3917 US contractors, and 1144 allied troops. Under Trump's watch 42 troops died in spite of his claims, under Biden 19 troops died. US taxpayers lost $2.3 trillion to the wasted effort.
I wonder if you even noticed one name missing off your list of conspirators. Give you a clue: commander in chief.
