Reaction & Commentary
HE’S THE FLESHY HOOD EYED MAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF. HE IS ALSO A NATIONAL DISGRACE, IS A LIVING INSULT TO THE MILITARY OVERSEAS. THAT’S NOT AN INSULT, IT’S OBJECTIVELY TRUE. I GET YET SOMEHOW DESPITE THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THAT MARK MILLEY IS DISHONEST, INCOMPETENT, PARTISAN, DISHONORABLE, MARK MILLEY STILL
HAS A HIGHLY PROMINENT JOB, THAT’S THE AMAZING THING. AND NOT ONLY IS MARK MILLEY STILL EMPLOYED AT THE VERY HIGHEST LEVEL, HE IS STILL LYING AND DOING SO WITH HIS CHARACTERISTIC RELISH AND ENTHUSIASM. TODAY, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH AN ENTIRELY STRAIGHT FACE, MARK MILLEY DELIVERED AN IMPASSIONED LECTURE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF CIVILIAN CONTROL
OF THE MILITARY. “THIS COUNTRY DOESN’T WANT GENERALS FIGURING OUT WHAT ORDERS WE ARE GOING TO ACCEPT OR DO OR NOT, THAT’S NOT OUR JOB.” OH, REALLY? IS THAT SO, MARK MILLEY? ISN’T THIS THE SAME MARK MILLEY WHO ONCE ILLEGALLY SEIZED PERSONAL CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY’S NUCLEAR ARSENAL? AND THEN WHEN THAT WASN’T
SUFFICIENT, PROMISED TO TIP OFF THE GOVERNOR OF CHINA ABOUT FUTURE MILITARY OPERATIONS AND DID ALL OF THIS WHO DIDN’T LIKE HIS BOSS WHO UNLIKE HIM WAS, YES, CIVILIAN ELECTED BY VOTERS. THAT’S THE VERY SAME MARK MILLEY, THE ONE LECTURING ABOUT THE MILITARY. IT WAS ALL PRETTY AMUSING IN A
DARK WAY, BUT HE DID MAKE YOU WONDER, WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? WHY IS MARK MILLEY SAYING SOMETHING SO OBVIOUSLY PREPOSTEROUS? EXPECT TO BE HELPING HIM IN SOME WAY. WHEN DID NEED IT WAS HELPING HIM. WHAT YOU WATCH IN THE SENATE HEARING TODAY WAS PURE BLAME SHIFTING. JOE BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY IS A
LEGITIMATE DISASTER, NOBODY DISPUTES THAT, BUT MARK MILLEY WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT NONE OF IT IS HIS FAULT. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT TOO. SO DOES THE HEAD OF CENTRAL COMMAND, GENERAL McKENZIE. ALL THREE OF THEM WANT TO MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE SCENERY DULL MAXING OUT ON THE
WHITE HOUSE DID THIS, IT’S HIS FAULT, NOT THEIRS. IT WAS JOE BIDEN, THEY TOLD US TODAY, WHO FORCED AMERICAN TROOPS TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN BEFORE WE EVACUATED ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS. AND BECAUSE THE PENTAGON REFLEXIVELY IN EVERY CASE FOLLOWS EVERY ORDER UP TO THE LETTER FROM THE SITTING PRESIDENT, THEY HAD NO CHOICE
BUT TO OBEY THESE CRAZY DECISIONS. WATCH THEM EXPLAIN. >> GENERAL MILLEY, IT’S YOUR TESTIMONY THAT YOU RECOMMENDED 2500 TROOPS APPROXIMATELY STAY IN AFGHANISTAN? >> YES, MY ASSESSMENT WAS BACK IN THE FALL OF APOSTOLATE 20 AND REMAINED CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT THAT WE SHOULD KEEP A STEADY — COULD BOUNCE UP TO 3500, MAYBE
SOMETHING LIKE THAT. >> GENERAL McKENZIE, DO YOU SHARE THAT ASSESSMENT? >> SENATOR, I DO SHARE THAT ASSESSMENT. >> PRESIDENT BIDEN LAST MONTH IN AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE TOUGH ANNAPOLIS SAID NO MILITARY LEADER ADVISED HIM TO LEAVE A SMALL TROOP PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN. DID THESE OFFICER AND GENERAL MILLER’S RECOMMENDATION GET TO
THE PRESIDENT PERSONALLY? >> THEIR INPUT WAS RECEIVED BY THE PRESIDENT AND CONSIDERED BY THE PRESIDENT FOR SURE. IN TERMS OF WHAT THEY SPECIFICALLY RECOMMENDED, SENATOR, AS THEY JUST SAID, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO PROVIDE WHAT THEY RECOMMENDED IN THE CONFERENCE. >> Tucker: YOU FOLLOWING THIS? WHEELS OFFICIALLY COMING OFF BUT
WHAT SLEAZE BALLS THESE GUYS ARE. WE TOLD JOE BIDEN TO KEEP 2500 TROOPS IN THE COUNTRY, WE DEMANDED IT. ON THE OTHER HAND, BECAUSE WE ARE BOUND BY THE ANCIENT AND SACRED RULES OF CONFIDENTIALITY, WE CAN’T REALLY TELL YOU WHAT WE TOLD THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE WRONG. [CACKLES]
THESE PEOPLE SO THOROUGHLY DESERVE EACH OTHER. IT IS WONDERFUL TO SEE THEM RENT ONE ANOTHER OUT, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY PROCEEDED TO DO FOR THE ENTIRETY OF TODAY’S HEARING. WATCH GENERAL McKENZIE EXPLAINED THAT DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE PERSONALLY OVERSAW THE DISASTER IN AFGHANISTAN, ACTUALLY HE HAD NOTHING TO DO
WITH IT, IT WAS ALL DEMENTED GRANDPA PULLING THE STRINGS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. >> I WON’T SHARE MY PERSONAL RECOGNITION TO THE PRESIDENT BUT I WILL GIVE YOU MY HONEST OPINION, AND MY HONEST OPINION AND VIEW SHAPED MY RECOMMENDATION. I RECOMMENDED THAT WE MAINTAIN 2,500 TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN, AND
I ALSO RECOMMENDED EARLIER IN THE FALL OF 2020 THAT WE MAINTAIN 4,500 AT THAT TIME. THOSE ARE MY PERSONAL VIEWS. I ALSO HAVE A VIEW THAT THE WITHDRAWAL OF THOSE FORCES WOULD LEAD INEVITABLY TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE AFGHAN MILITARY FORCES AND EVENTUALLY THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT. >> Tucker: WHAT A DIRT BALL
THAT GUY IS EMMA DID YOU HEAR THAT? I CAN’T SHARE A CONDITION, BUT HERE WAS MY RECOMMENDATION. [CACKLES] TAKE THOSE METALS OFF YOU DON’T DESERVE THEM. UNTIL TODAY, MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN UNDERMINING BIDEN INDIRECTLY. FAR BE IT FOR US TO DEFEND JOE BIDEN, WHO DESERVES NO
DEFENSE BUT IT IS A DEFENSE OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM, WHICH WORKS WELL WHEN CIVILIANS CONTROL THE MILITARY. UP UNTIL TODAY, THEY HAVE BEEN LEAKING BIDEN’S PHONE CALLS FOR EXAM WILL, THE PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN, THAT’S ILLEGAL, BUT THEY DID IT ANYWAY. THEY’VE BEEN GIVING NASTY BACKGROUND QUOTES TO THE STENOGRAPHERS AND NBC NEWS.
TODAY WAS DIFFERENT, TODAY’S PERFORMANCE TOOK PLACE IN PUBLIC. IT WAS ON THE RECORD AND IT WAS UNDER OATH, AND IN THAT PERFORMANCE, THEY DIRECTLY CONTRADICTED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. AS A REMINDER, HERE’S WHAT JOE BIDEN WAS SAYING JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO ON ABC. YOUR TOP MILITARY ADVISORS WARNED AGAINST, THEY WANTED YOU
TO KEEP ABOUT 2500 TROOPS. >> President Biden: NO THEY DIDN’T, IT WAS SPLIT. THAT WASN’T TRUE. >> THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU THEY WANTED TROOPS TO STAY? >> President Biden: NO, NOT IN TERMS OF WHETHER WE WERE GOING TO GET OUT IN A TIME FRAME ALL TROOPS. THEY DIDN’T ARGUE AGAINST THAT.
>> SO NO ONE TOLD — OR MILITARY ADVISORS DID NOT TELL YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD KEEP 2500 TROOPS, IT’S BEEN A STABLE SITUATION FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, WE CAN DO THAT, WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT? >> President Biden: NO, NO ONE SAID THAT TO ME THAT I CAN RECALL.
>> Tucker: OH, IT’S NOT A DEFENSE OF ANY OF THEM, THEY ARE ALL SO AWFUL AND UNDESERVING OF LEADING THIS GREAT COUNTRY. THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF THIS COUNTRY. IT’S TOO GOOD A COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE LIKE THIS. SO YOU ALREADY HAVE THE GENERALS CLAIMING THEY TOLD BIDEN THE
AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL WOULD BE A TOTAL DISASTER. BIDEN, JUST IN THE TAPE HE SAW SAID THEY DID NOT TELL HIM THAT. THE QUESTION IS WAS LANGFORD SOMEONE IS LYING, JOE BIDEN DOESN’T ALWAYS LINE, HE DOESN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING, HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HE HAD FOR LUNCH. HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW FOR SURE AND
THIS IS THE POINT OF TODAY’S HEARING END OF THE POINT THAT MATTERS GOING FORWARD. NO ONE IN THE PENTAGON’S LEADERSHIP WILL EVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS, THE LATEST IN A VERY LONG STRING OF COLOSSAL SCRUBS THAT HAVE DRAMATICALLY REDUCED AMERICAN POWER AND PRESTIGE AROUND THE WORLD, AND GOTTEN A TON OF
PEOPLE KILLED. NO ONE. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. LET’S SAY YOU WORKED IN A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AND WENDY HAD TOO MANY BEERS ON YOUR LUNCH BREAK AND HE FELL ASLEEP IN THE REACTOR MELTED DOWN AND THOUSANDS DIED, AND THEN YOU GOT A MASSIVE RAISE. THAT’S PRETTY MUCH WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUST PASSED $776 BILLION DEFENSE BUDGET. HOW BIG IS THAT? WELL, IT’S FULLY $24 BILLION MORE THAN EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE REQUESTED. NONE OF US, CONGRESS JUST THREW IN A LITTLE EXTRA FOR A JOB WELL DONE, A BONUS FOR THE GENERALS WHO LEFT $80 BILLION WORTH OF AMERICAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR
THE TALIBAN TO USE. GOOD WORK, GUYS! SO IT’S OFFICIAL NOW. NO ONE WILL EVER BE PUNISHED FOR ANY OF IT. NOT FOR ABANDONING THE AIR BASE, THAT WAS IDIOTIC, EVERYONE KNEW IT, EVER THEY DID IT ANYWAY. NOT FOR LEAVING AMERICAN CITIZENS BEHIND AS THEY FLED, NOT FOR LEAVING OUR TROOPS
EXPOSED TO THE ATTACK THAT KILLED 13 YOUNG AMERICAN SERVICEMAN, NOT FOR THE DRONE STRIKE THAT GLOW OF CHILDREN, THE ONE THEY LIED ABOUT FOR WEEKS. THE PEOPLE WHO DID THESE THINGS ARE IN GREAT SHAPE TONIGHT. THEY WILL RETIRE EXACTLY WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE RETIREMENT, AT WHICH POINT THEY WILL GET FULL
BENEFITS AND JOBS AT LOCKHEED. THAT’S HOW OUR SYSTEM NO WORKS. IT’S VERY, VERY FRUSTRATING. NOT BECAUSE RECRIMINATION IS GOOD, BUT BECAUSE IN ORDER TO FUNCTION, A SYSTEM TO BE ACCOUNTABLE. AND AS OF TONIGHT, THERE’S ONLY ONE MAN IN THE ENTIRE U.S. GOVERNMENT WHO IS BEING PUNISHED FOR THE FAILURE, THE CATASTROPHIC FAILURE IN
AFGHANISTAN, JUST ONE MAN. HE IS THE LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS. HE’S AN HONORABLE AND HONEST MAN. HE IS ALSO BLAMELESS. HE HAD NO ROLE IN ANY OF THESE DECISIONS. WHAT WAS HIS CRIME? ‘S CRIME WAS CRITICIZING THOSE DECISIONS. IN AUGUST HE POSTED THIS VIDEO ON THE INTERNET.
>> IF A BATTALION COMMANDER HAS THE SIMPLEST COMPLAINT, BOOM, FIRE, WE HAVE A SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THAT TESTIFIED TO CONGRESS IN MAY THAT THE AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE COULD WITHSTAND THE TALIBAN ADVANCE. WE HAVE CHAIRMAN ENJOYED CHEATS WHO COME OUT AS A MEMBER THAT WAS BOTH TO ADVISE THE MILITARY
POLICY, WE HAVE A MARINE COMBATANT COMMANDER, ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO ADVISE AND I’M NOT SAYING WE GOT TO BE IN AFGHANISTAN FOREVER, BUT I AM SAYING DID ANY OF YOU THROW YOUR RANK ON THE TABLE AND SAY HEY, IT’S A BAD IDEA TO EVACUATE BAGRAM AIRFIELD, THE
STRATEGIC AIRBASE, BEFORE WE EVACUATE EVERYONE? >> Tucker: THAT’S AN HONORABLE IN USE ON THE SCREEN. THAT’S A MAN WHO’S IN IT FOR THE RIGHT REASONS, HE CARES ABOUT THE COUNTRY AND WANTS TO DEFEND IT. THERE’S A MAN WHO BELIEVED IN HIS SUPERIORS, WHO IS NOT CYNICAL, WHO IS GENUINELY CONFUSED BY HIS SUPERIORS’
UNWILLINGNESS TO ADMIT THEIR OWN ERROR. HIS CONFUSION COMES FROM DECENCY. AND ALL MOST IMMEDIATELY HIS SUPERIORS REACTED TO THAT VIDEO. THEY DIDN’T APOLOGIZE FOR THE DISASTER, DIDN’T EXPLAIN WHY THEY DID WITH THE DEAD, THEY PUNISHED HIM. THEY RELIEVED HIM OF HIS COMMAND AND THEY TOLD HIM TO SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING.
BUT HE DIDN’T STOP TALKING. HERE’S HOW HE RESPONDED. >> TO RECAP MY POSITION IN THE FALL OUT OF AFGHANISTAN, I DEMANDED ACCOUNT ABILITY FOR MY SENIOR LEADERS AT I SAY AGAIN THAT I UNDERSTOOD THAT I MIGHT LOSE MY RETIREMENT AND MY FAMILY STABILITY. AS IT HAS PLAYED OUT, I HAVE IN
FACT LOST ALL THREE OF THOSE THINGS. WHAT I DO IT AGAIN? I DON’T KNOW. MY NAME IS LIEUTENANT COLONEL STUART SCHELLER AND I WAS THE ONLY OFFICER IN THE ENTIRE AMERICAN COALITION FIRED IN THE DEBACLE OF THE AFGHAN FOLLOW. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED. HOWEVER, THE HYPOCRISY OF THE
GENERAL OFFICERS WHO ARE NOT BEING HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD IS A MICROCOSM FOR THE ENTIRE PROBLEM THAT IS GOING TO BRING DOWN THE GREAT INSTITUTIONS OF THIS REPUBLIC THAT WE LOVE. >> Tucker: THAT’S THE MAN YOU WANT SERVING IN YOUR OFFICER CORPS IN A SERIOUS COUNTRY, A PERSON WHO TAKES HIS JOB
SERIOUSLY, IS PATRIOTIC, WHO IS HONEST, WHO DEMANDS ACCOUNT ABILITY. AND BEFORE YOU SAY IT’S THE MILITARY, THEY DON’T HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE A POLITICAL STATEMENT, TWO POINTS, ONE, THAT WAS NOT UP POLITICALLY EXPLICIT STATEMENT. ENDLESS NUMBER OF OPENLY PARTISAN STATEMENTS OF THE LEADERS OF THE PENTAGON.
MARK MILLEY WAS OPENLY THRILLED BY THE ELECTION OF JOE BIDEN. WAS HE PUNISHED FOR THAT? NO, HE WAS ELEVATED IN CONGRESS AGAIN JUST REWARDED HIM IN THE ENTIRE LEADERSHIP OF THE U.S. MILITARY WITH 24 EXTRA BILLION DOLLARS. BUT STUART SCHELLER FOR TELLING THE TRUTH? WELL, HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.
MILITARY BRASS FOREST HIM TO UNDERGO A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION BECAUSE ONLY A CRAZY PERSON WOULD ASK FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER THE DISASTER IN AFGHANISTAN. AND THEN WHEN HE WOULDN’T ADMIT HE WAS CRAZY, THEY THREW HIM IN PRISON, IN JAIL, WHERE HE SITS TONIGHT. HIS FATHER JUST RELEASED THIS STATEMENT EXPLAIN HIS SON IS NOW
BEHIND BARS WITH VIOLENT CRIMINALS. HOW LONG IS HE THERE? HE’S THERE INDEFINITELY. THIS IS HAPPENING TO MIGHT OR MIGHT TONIGHT AMERICA. “ALL OUR SON DID WAS ASK THE QUESTION THAT EVERYONE WAS ASKING THEMSELVES THAT THEY WERE TOO SCARED TO SPEAK OUT LOUD, IT WAS ASKING FOR ACCOUNT ABILITY.
I THINK EVEN ASKED FOR A APOLOGY THAT WE MADE MISTAKES BUT THEY COULDN’T DO THAT, WHICH WAS MIND-BLOWING, THEY HAD A GAG ORDER ON HIM AND ASK HIM TO SPEAK. HE DID SPEAK AND THEY INCARCERATED HIM VERY THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM.” ONE OF THE
