Out of Control Generals want more WAR!

Only a day before the release of Bob Woodword’s new book “Obama’s War” an expose of infighting within the Obama administration over Afghanistan, the progressive grassroots activist group ReThink Afghanistan came out with a video depicting just how much Generals under Gates despise and challenge their Commander-In-Chief.

The main message of this new video produced by Brave New Foundation is that even before General David Petraeus was to take command from General McChrystal who was forced into retirement for disrespect to his Commander-In-Chief, back in May 2010 Petraeus was quoted at a wine sipping as saying,

““[The administration] is ****ing with the wrong guy.”

We’ve decided to post links to the ReThink Afghanistan video, but I personally believe that either President Obama has to get HIS Pentagon and Field Commanders under control as the Commander-In-Chief, or the American voter is going to clearly see that what General McChrystal said about Obama fearing the Pentagon and being nervous around the brass just might be closer to the truth. He and the Democratic Party (with the exception of Blue Dog Democrats who are almost Republicans anyway) evidently FEAR the Pentagon and Generals running the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It may be way past time for progressive grass-roots groups to call for the termination of Secretary of Defense Gates, General Petraeus, and any other General or Admiral who cannot follow orders from civilians who control our Armed Forces.

ROBERT L. HANAFIN, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, GS-14, U.S. Civil Service-Retired, Veterans Issues Editor, VT News Network.

[youtube General Petraeus is Messing with the Wrong People]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvWo33EDVo

http://www.facebook.com/rethinkafghanistan?akid=1261.42554.A_crp3&rd=1&t=4&v=app_10442206389

Bob Woodward’s new book, “Obama’s War,” has just been released, and  excerpts show just how hard some military leaders are fighting to stop a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Late last year, as President Obama struggled to pin the military down into an airtight exit strategy, General Petraeus said:

“[The administration] is ****ing with the wrong guy.”

It’s clear Petraeus and his subordinates want to ignore the July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing troops. A colonel briefing reporters at the Pentagon this week even told them that, “No one said that we were withdrawing in July 2011.”

Military officials need to understand that it’s not up to them when we leave Afghanistan. Ultimately, that’s up to us, the American people, and we’re sick and tired of this war that’s not making us safer and that’s not worth the cost. General Petraeus is the one messing with the wrong people–the 57 percent of Americans who oppose the war.

The military is undermining the Commander-in-Chief and working to extend the war

The publicity around Woodward’s book gives us a new opportunity to get people’s attention about how the military is undermining the Commander-in-Chief and working to extend the war. Our new video exposes their effort, but we need your help to get it in front of people.

Send our latest video to as many people as you can, and share it on your Facebook wall. With your help, we can keep the warmongers on the defensive and end this war.

Sincerely,

Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Foundation team

Robert L. Hanafin

Readers are more than welcome to use the articles I’ve posted on Veterans Today, I’ve had to take a break from VT as Veterans Issues and Peace Activism Editor and staff writer due to personal medical reasons in our military family that take away too much time needed to properly express future stories or respond to readers in a timely manner.

My association with VT since its founding in 2004 has been a very rewarding experience for me.

Retired from both the Air Force and Civil Service. Went in the regular Army at 17 during Vietnam (1968), stayed in the Army Reserve to complete my eight year commitment in 1976. Served in Air Defense Artillery, and a Mechanized Infantry Division (4MID) at Fort Carson, Co. Used the GI Bill to go to college, worked full time at the VA, and non-scholarship Air Force 2-Year ROTC program for prior service military. Commissioned in the Air Force in 1977. Served as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1977 to 1994. Upon retirement I entered retail drugstore management training with Safeway Drugs Stores in California. Retail Sales Management was not my cup of tea, so I applied my former U.S. Civil Service status with the VA to get my foot in the door at the Justice Department, and later Department of the Navy retiring with disability from the Civil Service in 2000.

I’ve been with Veterans Today since the site originated. I’m now on the Editorial Board. I was also on the Editorial Board of Our Troops News Ladder another progressive leaning Veterans and Military Family news clearing house.

I remain married for over 45 years. I am both a Vietnam Era and Gulf War Veteran. I served on Okinawa and Fort Carson, Colorado during Vietnam and in the Office of the Air Force Inspector General at Norton AFB, CA during Desert Storm. I retired from the Air Force in 1994 having worked on the Air Staff and Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon.