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Coast Guard Commandant Describes Obama’s Pressure On Repeal Of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
IN THE MILITARY — A video reveals that President Obama told the nation’s top military commanders to support his agenda of “gays” in the ranks – or find another job.The stunning revelation comes in a video that was obtained by Buzzfeed under a Freedom of Information Act request and posted online.
The chief of the nation’s Coast Guard, Adm. Robert Papp, says in the video, “We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’”
Papp continued, “I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that’s private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn’t agree with it – if any of us didn’t agree with it – we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things.”
The issue was Obama’s abandonment of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that allowed homosexual soldiers as long as they kept their proclivities to themselves. Now the military promotes open homosexuality in the ranks.
Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, told WND on Thursday, “Falls in line with his previous behavior that he’s above the law. He’s acting again like an imperial president.”
It came as part of WND’s coverage of what some top generals are openly calling a “purge” of senior military officers who run afoul of Obama or his agenda, some military personnel have been speaking out.
There have been close to 200 senior officers over the last five years, officials have confirmed.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, told WND that Obama’s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point that members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win.
“There is no doubt [Obama] 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, former president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks’ overall readiness reduced by the Obama administration’s purge of key leaders, but colonels – who are lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals – are quietly taking their careers in other directions, sources confirm.
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, says 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,” he said. “The problem is worse than we have ever seen.”
WND for weeks has reported on the problems faced by the nation’s military officers.
The reports include confirmation from Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness, who says Obama has done “great damage” to the military by taking away resources and imposing “heavy burdens of social experimentation.”
“But most flag and general officers are following orders, keeping their heads down and, in my opinion, letting down the troops,” she said.
In the Reagan administration, Donnelly was appointed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. In 1992, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.
Former Florida Congressman Allen West is calling for congressional oversight hearings into what he calls an “alarming trend” of dismissals and firings of high-ranking military officers by the Obama administration.
West, who served on the House Armed Services Committee, said he recently had been in contact with Committee Chairman Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon. West is calling for hearings “to determine exactly why” so many officers, especially senior officers, are being given the boot.
“Obama apparently prefers leadership by intimidation and coercion – nothing new there – rather than leading by example and with competence,” he wrote.
The discussion from Papp, who will be retiring in May, came Jan. 8 when he was answering questions from cadets.
“Even Buzzfeed recognizes the hypocrisy of Obama: ‘In a 2008 interview, then-Senator Obama told The Advocate that he wouldn’t make support of DADT’s repeal ‘a litmus test’ for his military leaders. ‘What I want are members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who are making decisions based on what strengthens our military and what is going to make us safer, not ideology.’”
“So we cut the military down to pre-World War II levels but we institute social egalitarian ideological initiatives under threat of resignation, Mr. President? Some Commander-in-Chief we have huh?” West said. » Full Article
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