This chief petty officer tells it like he feels it.
Nope.
A military officer's oath of commissioning says,
I ... do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; ...There is no oath of loyalty or even obedience to the president. I say that for a general officer, from the chairman of the joint chief of staff on down, to commit acts of war against another country that have been actually forbidden by Congress would be one of the grossest violations of Constitutional military duty that can be imagined. That's the second prong of a potential Constitutional crisis.
If Congress does not authorize a war, I think that Obama would roll on his back and pee on his belly, which is his general inclination anyway. Ordering a war in the face of Congressional refusal could even result in mutiny (almost unthinkable) aboard US warships.
ReplyDeleteCW, I deleted the post you commented about. Truth is I was not happy with it anyway. Sorry, don't take it personally. the rat
ReplyDeleteNo sweat Rat, I didn't mean it really as criticism, just a point of fact. And I don't mean to defend Bush too much. He was a poor president, in my opinion, since he moved us further down the road to economic ruin and loss of freedom by big government, just not as fast as his political opponents would have done it. There were some good things he did, just not enough of them.
DeleteThe sailor there should be listened to, that's a Gunners Mate Chief!
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