OBAMA AMENDS COURTS-MARTIAL RULES! (Open Thread)

©2010 Bridgette WTPOTUS

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The Great Purge Orchestrators - Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, and Nikolai Yezhov

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OBAMA ISSUES NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER

AMENDS COURT MARTIAL RULES!

Show Us the Changes! 

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On August 31, 2010, pResident Obama signed his latest Executive Order amending the “Manual for Courts-Martial.”

The White House website shows the Executive Order, but the changes  that were made were not published.  The cover page states they are “described in the Annex attached.”

As of yesterday, the changes were not listed on these websites: The Federal Register;  Department of Defense; Library of Congress; or the JAG database.

On September 30, 2010, these new amendments will take effect.

Tread Marks for General McChrystal?

“The Runaway General”

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan

 

By  Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, June 22,  2010

‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hôtel Westminster in Paris. He’s in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States. Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany’s president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops. McChrystal is in Paris to keep the French, who have lost more than 40 soldiers in Afghanistan, from going all wobbly on him.

“The dinner comes with the position, sir,” says his chief of staff, Col. Charlie Flynn.

McChrystal turns sharply in his chair.

“Hey, Charlie,” he asks, “does this come with the position?”

McChrystal gives him the middle finger.

Insubordinate Military Commanders? No, Sir.

By Larry Johnson, NoQuarter  May 8, 2010

Posted By Bridgette

Obama and General McCrystal, Copenhagen Meeting October 2, 2009

US Military Hedges Bets With Obama

Readers of NoQuarter know that when it comes to my assessment of Barack Obama’s support of the military in the so-called “war” on terrorism I have given him high marks and credited him with being aggressive in going after terrorist cells. Well, the worm has turned. The military’s ability to confront terrorists, which already was limited because the terrorists don’t normally organize in ways that make them easy to hit with military assets, is now being further hindered by a combination of Obama actions and military caution. In essence the brakes are being applied and we are likely to see fewer results in the future. Why? Because the military no longer trusts Barack Obama.