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An Open Letter to Admiral William McRaven

Saturday, 18 August 2018, 9:00 MJA Uncategorized 21

US defense watch- – –

By Ray Starmann

Dear Admiral McRaven:

Your OPED yesterday, which was picked up by every liberal media outlet in the country, was sadly indicative of the current state of mind of many of our nation’s recently retired and active duty senior military leaders.

You stated that former CIA director John Brennan, “is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him.”

The man whom you describe as being a cross between George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Mother Theresa is a deep state hack; who, along with other Obama holdouts, is openly and aggressively pursuing a coup d’etat against the current President of the United States, for one reason and one reason only – his side lost the election.

Frankly, I can’t think of any actions that are more un-American, and against the values that Americans hold dear and that which so many Americans died for in the past.

What you call unparalleled integrity, I call honest to goodness treason.

Former CIA director Brennan, whom you state has honesty and character authorized the CIA to spy on American citizens, tried to rig a Presidential election and then lied to Congress about that spying. A man you claim has unparalleled integrity was caught fabricating stories about attacks on US personnel in Libya and providing weapons to ISIS backed militias in Syria.

Mr. Brennan also voted once for a communist candidate. How Mr. Brennan was hired as DCI after voting for a communist and why you support a man who once did, is a mystery to everyone but you and God.

Former members of the special operations community do not share your adoration for Mr. Brennan. Kris “Tanto” Paronto, a former Army Ranger and private security contractor who was part of the CIA team that fought back during the 2012 Benghazi terror attack, accused Brennan of putting his “politics” before those in the field.

On Twitter, Paronto stated: “My principles are greater than clearances too John Brennan, especially when you and the @CIA kool-aid drinkers punishes us for not going along with the Benghazi cover-up story in order to protect you, @HillaryClinton’s & @BarackObama’s failures. You put your politics before us.” 

Mr. Brennan was recently referred to by retired Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata as a ‘clear and present danger’ to the nation. MORE

21 Comments on An Open Letter to Admiral William McRaven

  3. They keep saying Brennan is a “hero” and he was “essential for the killing of bin Laden”.
    If you have an opportunity, please read this article by Seymour M. Hersh posted in May 2015 about “The Killing of Osama bin Laden”
    https://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

    Here’s some excerpts from it, where the author talks about Brennan’s lies, which helped him to get promoted.

    “…John Brennan, then Obama’s senior adviser for counterterrorism, had the task of talking up Obama’s valour while trying to smooth over the misstatements in his speech. He provided a more detailed but equally misleading account of the raid and its planning. Speaking on the record, which he rarely does, Brennan said that the mission was carried out by a group of Navy Seals who had been instructed to take bin Laden alive, if possible. He said the US had no information suggesting that anyone in the Pakistani government or military knew bin Laden’s whereabouts: ‘We didn’t contact the Pakistanis until after all of our people, all of our aircraft were out of Pakistani airspace.’ He emphasised the courage of Obama’s decision to order the strike, and said that the White House had no information ‘that confirmed that bin Laden was at the compound’ before the raid began. Obama, he said, ‘made what I believe was one of the gutsiest calls of any president in recent memory’. Brennan increased the number killed by the Seals inside the compound to five: bin Laden, a courier, his brother, a bin Laden son, and one of the women said to be shielding bin Laden.
    …
    In his address announcing the raid, Obama said that after killing bin Laden the Seals ‘took custody of his body’. The statement created a problem. In the initial plan it was to be announced a week or so after the fact that bin Laden was killed in a drone strike somewhere in the mountains on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border and that his remains had been identified by DNA testing. But with Obama’s announcement of his killing by the Seals everyone now expected a body to be produced. Instead, reporters were told that bin Laden’s body had been flown by the Seals to an American military airfield in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and then straight to the USS Carl Vinson, a supercarrier on routine patrol in the North Arabian Sea. Bin Laden had then been buried at sea, just hours after his death. The press corps’s only sceptical moments at John Brennan’s briefing on 2 May were to do with the burial. The questions were short, to the point, and rarely answered. ‘When was the decision made that he would be buried at sea if killed?’ ‘Was this part of the plan all along?’ ‘Can you just tell us why that was a good idea?’ ‘John, did you consult a Muslim expert on that?’ ‘Is there a visual recording of this burial?’ When this last question was asked, Jay Carney, Obama’s press secretary, came to Brennan’s rescue: ‘We’ve got to give other people a chance here.’
    ‘We thought the best way to ensure that his body was given an appropriate Islamic burial,’ Brennan said, ‘was to take those actions that would allow us to do that burial at sea.’ He said ‘appropriate specialists and experts’ were consulted, and that the US military was fully capable of carrying out the burial ‘consistent with Islamic law’. Brennan didn’t mention that Muslim law calls for the burial service to be conducted in the presence of an imam, and there was no suggestion that one happened to be on board the Carl Vinson.”

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  7. This just makes me sad.

    Was he just too feted and admired during the Obama years? Has he been immersed too long in academia? (Is it that poisonous?) Just putting his academic or potential media career first? I can’t wrap my head around this.

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  9. Obama and others worked diligently to cull the military ranks of as many true patriots as possible during his time in office. This sorry hunk of shit is an example of what’s been left behind.

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  11. Bring back Admiral Elmo Zumwalt from the dead. Just my opinion, he was a great Admiral and CNO during the Vietnam War. I got to meet him once when I was a lowly Airman doing TAD duty in Special services at NAS Miramar, Cal. just North of San Diego in early 1973 when I was in charge of the base theater and duty driver etc. when he visited Miramar and I was responsible to make sure everything was properly taken care of at the theater before his visit.

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  12. I was especially struck by this passage: “… why you support a man who once did, is a mystery to everyone but you and God.”

    We are wasting too much time and energy — particularly energy — trying to figure out or understand motivations. As though that would in some way ameliorate the effect, the crime. This desire to know the motivation is also a legacy of the oblowme years. We believe we can argue and reason the Left away from their beliefs if we could only understand why they do the things they do. We can’t. In the Progressive Brain Map there is no location with which to communicate. This search for Leftist meaning has ruined our court systems, too. It has fractionated crimes into increasingly specific categories, and with special law, like “Hate Crimes” (which rely on things like assumed motivation).

    Jordan Peterson said something that stuck with me: (parenthetically) “In the absence of clear information that reveals a person’s motivation or goal, sometimes the most surgically accurate method of identifying it is to simply look at the outcome. If someone is consistently making themselves and everyone around them miserable, their goal is to make themselves and everyone around them miserable.”

    In other words it doesn’t matter why Brennan and his partners in crime are doing what they are doing. Look at the outcome or goal of what they are doing or trying to do. The writer does a superb job of that! We are only in awe of his boldness, because we don’t do it enough. God help us we should be accused of making reasonable assumptions, right?

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  14. John Brennen is part of an incompetent and stupid cabal of leftist criminals traitorously pushing a political coup to oust the President of the United States!
    Do we thank God that they are so incompetent and stupid that they are failing in their effort to do so or do we weep because as one time leaders of this country they were incompetent and stupid in their pursuit of asinine and failed policies concerning the safety and well being of America?

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  15. We are wasting too much time and energy — particularly energy — trying to figure out or understand motivations.

    I blew right past that whole ‘figure them out’ some time ago. It’s simply a matter of yeas v nays. If some soul wants to stand there to think things through while rounds are zinging past their head, I won’t stand in their way though. Or the round’s way. Clearly, the well has been poisoned for decades. Just as clearly, the nays are extraordinarily invested in holding onto their power, and at any cost (which is a thesis-length exposition on its own). Countering to stop them is the first principle.

    Not to get all messianic, but there is a grand war between good and evil being played out on this plane in real time.

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  18. More interesting history on this snow flake. From Wikipedia.

    “In 1982, as a junior officer McRaven was assigned to SEAL Team SIX under the command of CDR Richard Marcinko but was pushed out in 1983 due to McRaven’s concerns about a culture of recklessness, military discipline, and difficulties in keeping his sailors in line”

    Nice to see the rest of the military start to hit back against these pansies.

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  19. A “political admiral” who is one
    of the reasons our fleets are
    ill manned and too many Naval
    Officers run their ships into freighters in the middle of a
    bright calm day.

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  21. Very disappointing. My only prior knowledge of Adm McRaven was his – If you want to change the world start by making your bed message – delivered to U. Texas graduating class a few years ago.

    It was fine to encourage goal setting, courage and undaunted persistence toward reaching the goals. However, even while listening to the video or reading the later book that expanded on the concept – I thought the message was missing advice on how to select the proper goals. Now it is clear he followed his own advice toward wrong and unworthy goals.

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