U.S. General: Let's Make Obama Resign

> U.S. GENERAL: LET'S MAKE OBAMA RESIGN
> Cites Nixon resignation, urges citizens 'to save republic' from Washington
> leadership

> WASHINGTON – A retired Army general is calling for the “forced resignations”
> of President Obama, other administration officials and the leadership of
> Congress for the direction they’re taking the nation, his list of grievances
> including the systematic political purge of hundreds of senior military
> officers in the U.S. military.
> Retired Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely told WND he is calling for nationwide
> rallies and protests to demand the resignations and added that a peaceful
> “civil uprising is still not out of question.”
> In his capacity as chairman of the organization Stand Up America, Vallely
> issued what he termed a “National Call to Action” to force the resignations
> of Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
> D-Nev., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker John
> Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
> Vallely, formerly the deputy commanding general of Pacific Command, said the
> current crop of leaders must be forced to resign by the “demand resignation”
> process, which he explained requires massive grass-roots protests and social
> networking. As an example, he cited the public and media pressure that led
> to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
> Impeachment, Vallely said, is not a viable option because of “partisan
> politics.”
> “Our federal government continues down the path of destroying America,” he
> said. “Americans must now stand up and put America back on the right track.”
> In issuing his national call to action, Vallely said the federal government
> has not subsided in “sucking the oxygen” out of America.
> “And we call to action all branches of government to do your constitutional
> duties and not be led astray in the cultural and moral decay of America. We
> have witnessed far too many lies,” he said, as well as “deception and the
> corruption of the republic.”
> Vallely reminds Americans that the Declaration of Independence itself states
> that whenever “any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it
> is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
> Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its
> powers in such form, as to them shall seem more likely to affect their
> Safety and Happiness.”
> Vallely said the nation he long defended is self-destructing “before our
> very eyes,” because of “our inept and incompetent leadership in Washington.”
> “The battle is on,” he added, “and we shall not retreat.”
> Vallely, who has also served as a Fox News military analyst, claimed the
> Obama administration and leadership of Congress have been leading the nation
> down a road of “progressive socialism.”
> The retired general said the U.S. faces a battle that is unknown to
> generations of Americans, and that the fate of the nation is “now in our
> hands” to enforce the Constitution and “severely limit the federal
> government and its out-of-control spending.”
> He said conditions today are approaching those of the time of the inaugural
> address of President Abraham Lincoln, who said at the time that people have
> a “right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new
> one.”
> “Shake off,” said Vallely, “means replacing government leaders.” He argued
> America today bears “many similarities to the fall of Rome.” America, he
> added, is not immune to collapse or even revolution, which he notes “has
> happened many times in history. … External and internal threats could
> precipitate this as well as any financial collapse.”
> Vallely added that “politics as usual will not be effective or sufficient
> enough to turn the country around.”
> “We are in a war for America,” he told WND, adding that Sen. Ted Cruz,
> R-Texas, and Dr. Ben Carson, the noted brain surgeon and author of “America
> the Beautiful” and other bestselling books have made similar observations.
> Americans have had enough, he said, and the Obama White House and
> identifiable members of Congress “must now depart from a progressive
> socialist and treasonous death march and bankrupting the country beyond
> expectations.”
> “A civil uprising is still not out of the question as ‘pain’ grips the
> country more each day,” Vallely said, adding that there is time to change
> the country in a peaceful way.
> “This means raising your voice now to your neighbors, family, co-workers and
> friends,” he said. “Be the captains of your souls. I pray for another George
> Washington to appear within the year and lead us.”
> One of the issues that alarms Vallely is the high number of senior officers
> in the U.S. military who have been fired under the Obama administration, a
> toll estimated at one officer per week. Indeed, Vallely has been very
> outspoken to what he calls a “purge” of the U.S. military by the Obama
> administration — with a stunning nine generals and flag officers relieved of
> duty this year alone.
> WND has been reporting on the surge of firings, suspensions and dismissals,
> for which Vallely has assigned a good portion of the blame to Obama’s close
> adviser, Valerie Jarrett. Rampant “political correctness” due to her
> influence, Vallely tells WND, is now permeating the military and negatively
> affecting everyone from top generals to the ranks of the enlisted.
> According to Vallely, Obama is “intentionally weakening and gutting our
> military, Pentagon and reducing the U.S. as a superpower, and anyone in the
> ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”
> Vallely equated the current treatment of U.S. senior military officers
> watching over what is said and done among mid-level officers and enlisted
> ranks to that of the “political commissars from the Communist era.”
> He also told WND that the White House won’t investigate its own officials,
> but finds it easy to fire military commanders “who have given their lives
> for their country.”
> “Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have
> bought into Obama’s ideology,” Vallely said. “The White House protects their
> own. That’s why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious,
> Benghazi and Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our
> military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks
> who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”
> He’s far from alone in his concerns about the military purge, as J.D.
> Gordon, a retired Navy commander and a former Pentagon spokesman in the
> Office of the Secretary of Defense, says the Obama administration is rushing
> to unload senior officers whom he believes have become “political pawns”
> dismissed for questionable reasons.
> Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a recipient of the U.S. military’s
> highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, similarly has told WND that Obama
> needs to apply the same standards to his political appointees as he does to
> the military.
> “Just when you thought the leadership of this government could not get any
> worse, it does,” Brady said. “Never in history has an administration spawned
> another scandal to cover the current one.”
> This was a reference to the recent firing of a number of generals to mask
> “Obama’s serial scandals, all prefaced by lies – Fast and Furious, Benghazi,
> NSA, IRS,” among others, said Brady, former president of the Congressional
> Medal of Honor Society.
> Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, who was a founding member
> of Delta Force and later deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence
> under President George W. Bush, tells WND it is worrying that four-star
> generals are being retired at the rate that has occurred under Obama.
> “Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star
> generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause,”
> Boykin said. “I believe there is a purging of the military. The problem is
> worse than we have ever seen."
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Purging and Transforming Our Military

November 8, 2013 By Matthew Vadum

President Obama hasn’t just been hollowing out the military since taking office, he’s been gutting it, purging it of ideologically hostile personnel, and fundamentally transforming it into something other than a war-fighting force, military experts say.

Although few with military ties are willing to say it openly, it seems the administration is leading an orchestrated effort to seriously undermine the readiness of the military. Some reports indicate that Obama has purged 197 senior military officers since moving into the White House and that many of the retired officers have been harassed at their new civilian jobs for criticizing the president’s policies. The effects of these purges will be felt long after Obama leaves office.

This is, of course, the same through-the-looking-glass administration that goes out of its way not to label actual Islamic terrorists as terrorists, that calls terrorist attacks “man-caused disasters,” and refers to the Global War on Terror as the “Overseas Contingency Operation.”

A retired senior military officer and combat veteran who remains involved in national security affairs, told FrontPage in an interview that President Obama is involved in social engineering of the United States military.

“Having women in combat is bad,” he said. “It is changing the social complexion of the infantry and we now have this epidemic of sexual assaults.”

Soldiers are told not to be mean to gays, he said. “Do you really think the individuals who are joining the all-volunteer force will be joining to pull triggers or to get sensitivity training?”

The former officer said that President Obama is getting rid of experienced war fighters for no apparent reason.

The “poster child” for such firings is James Mattis, a real soldier’s soldier and four-star general in the Marine Corps who retired unexpectedly this past May at age 63. As a brigadier general Mattis led a brigade into Kandahar in fall of 2001 and a Marines division into Iraq during the invasion in 2003.

“Mattis should have been the next chairman of the joint chiefs of staff but mysteriously he gets retired,” the officer said. Mattis had been asking questions about Obama’s policy toward, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, that the powers that be didn’t want asked, he said.

In early 2009 Obama cashiered David McKiernan, the general in charge of the Afghanistan war. He was replaced by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whom he also fired. Obama canned his intelligence chief, Gen. David Petraeus. Gen. John Allen, another key figure in the Afghanistan war, resigned unexpectedly, according to an analysis by the “Vernuccio/Allison Report,” a radio show carried by WVOX 1460 AM in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Gen. Carter Ham fell on his sword soon after the White House denied permission for a rescue mission to save officials trapped at the besieged U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. Admiral David Gaurette, who oversaw an aircraft carrier group in the Middle East, also had retirement thrust upon him, as did Marine Gen. James Cartwright.

Vice Admiral Tim Giardina and Major Gen. Michael Carey, military commanders involved with the nation’s nuclear defenses, have also been shown the door by the president.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady told WND that President Obama has forced out so many military leaders who have doubts about his policies that the nation’s armed forces no longer feel prepared to fight or to try to win armed conflicts.

“There is no doubt he is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him” over such issues as “homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,” said Brady, a recipient of the military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

“They are purging everyone, and if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,” another top retired officer told WND.

“Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks’ overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration’s purge of key leaders, colonels – those lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals – are quietly taking their careers in other directions,” the media outlet reports.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin said four-star generals are being retired at an alarming rate under Obama. “Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause.”

“I believe there is a purging of the military,” he said. “The problem is worse than we have ever seen.”

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North weighed in on the issue on Mark Levin’s radio show last night.

Although “there’s a lot of dead wood wearing flags and stars … [who] wouldn’t know how to fight their way out of a paper bag,” a suspicious number of flag officers have been given walking papers by the Obama administration, he said. He continued:

There’s a group of people, and I don’t think it’s anything close to a hundred, but there’s probably several dozen who tried to do the right thing and they weren’t promoted by this administration because it was contrary to their policy whether it was the administration’s stated narrative that we’ve ended al-Qaeda, therefore we’re safe in the world, or whether it’s the stated narrative that we’re doing a pivot toward Asia which is total baloney because there’s no money to do it with, or it’s the people who want to defend America with a real serious ballistic missile defense and they were fired because they said, “hey gosh, we’re not doing what we need to do to protect the American people.”

Generals and admirals who “feel strongly that something has gone wrong and something isn’t being done right, you have a moral obligation to know, first of all, your career is probably over anyway, so have the courage to stand up at a podium, take off your stars, throw ‘em down [on] the podium, and tell the truth to the American people on your way out the door.”

This “has not happened yet and it should have happened a long time ago,” North said, adding:

The military is being turned into a laboratory for radical social engineering experiments. They’re wrecking the finest military force the world has ever known — brighter, better educated, trained, led, and now the most combat-experienced military force in the history of the world. And they’re not standing up and saying, “stop wrecking it.” This administration is intent on wrecking it.

The president has also taken some steps that seem aimed only at harming morale. Obama plans to force Marines of both sexes to don unisex headwear that critics mock as “girly hats.”

According to former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie, ranking SEAL commanders have banned their subordinates from wearing the Navy’s traditional “don’t tread on me” insignia. The patch depicting a coiled rattlesnake ready to strike is typically worn by SEALs and is a variation of the Gadsden flag, a Revolutionary era vexillological device that has been used by the U.S. Marines and Navy since 1775. In 2002 the secretary of the Navy ordered that a variation of the flag, the Navy Jack, be flown on all U.S. Navy ships for the duration of the Global War on Terror.

The Left abhors the Gadsden because it is carried at Tea Party rallies and has been used as a symbol of resistance to Obama’s authoritarianism.

Leftist influencer and all-purpose crackpot Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Gadsden flag as a symbol of hate that in “contemporary society [is] the flag of the militia movement.” The flag says “Don’t mess with us,” and implies, “Don’t mess with us at the point of a gun,” says Potok.

Since taking office in 2009, the Obama administration has been on a relentless drive to stigmatize and delegitimize opposing points of view. The administration has instructed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to treat conservatives and libertarians as potential terrorists. Obama’s IRS targets conservative and Tea Party groups for harassment and special investigations.

Americans ought to be alarmed that the administration is now using the same heavy-handed, un-American tactics to turn members of the nation’s armed forces against its domestic political adversaries.

We know, for example, that a January 2013 Department of Defense (DoD) diversity training center “student guide” entitled “Extremism” instructs soldiers that conservative organizations are “hate groups” and Tea Party supporters are potentially dangerous extremists.

The DoD materials not only take aim at modern conservative groups but label America’s Founding Fathers as extremists who would be unfit to serve in today’s military. The teaching guide advises that instead of “dressing in sheets,” radicals today “will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.” American patriots who fought for Independence from the United Kingdom in the 1700s are identified as adhering to “extremist ideologies.”

“In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements,” the document states. “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.”

The materials advise soldiers to rely on the Alabama-based neo-Marxist Southern Poverty Law Center as a resource in identifying hate groups. A 2006 report from the SPLC, essentially an anti-conservative attack machine funded by George Soros, claimed improbably that “large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces.”

This is what happens when you make a radical left-wing community organizer Commander-in-Chief of America’s armed forces.

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