GellerReport: Thursday evening President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that he had chosen James N. Mattis, a hard-charging retired general who led a Marine division to Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, to serve as his secretary of defense. Whew – Petraeus is out of the war, thank goodness.
Mr. Trump made the announcement at a rally in Cincinnati, calling General Mattis “the closest thing we have to Gen. George Patton.”
General Mattis, 66, led the United States Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, from 2010 to 2013. His tour there was cut short by the Obama administration, which believed he was too hawkish on Iran.
But his insistence that Iran is the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East, as well as his acerbic criticism of the Obama administration’s initial efforts to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, made him an attractive choice for the incoming president. (NYT)
Obama dismissed him. Right there is a ringing endorsement. Perhaps now the military to get back to the business of defending this country and throw off the nonsensical sensitivity training running the gamut of every left-wing victimhood narrative they could think of.
Mattis on the other hand speaks plain and understands the enemy. At times, General Mattis’ salty language has gotten him into trouble. “You go into Afghanistan, you got guys that slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” he said in 2005. “So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.” more here
You petulant immature little children, vacate the White House immediately. It’s time for real men to come out of retirement and repair the damage you have intentionally inflicted upon this country.
Valerie Jarrett is seething right now – all her hard work is about to be dismantled. I love it.
There is a host of politically correct asshats with stars on their shoulders pissing puddles in the Pentagon.
Hold on to your hat Nancy, shit is about to get real!
I imagine him walking into Ash Carter’s office and bellowing “Pajama Boy. Get yer shit out. Now!!!”
If he runs for President next time around I can see the bumper stickers now. “Mad Dog 2020”.
@Txn4Evr – see a pattern here – Generals forced out by Oblowme are being brought back to resume their sworn duties. And you’re right, the self-serving, ass-kissing suck-ups that populate too much of the upper brass positions will be packing their bags soon.
@Bad Brad – Brilliant!!! That one is Fur-worthy.
Mad Dog 2020 works well for me!
This guy might actually be Patton.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/02/top-15-quotes-secretary-defense-nominee-james-mattis/
bb, remember, patton believed in reincarnation
this guy is patton
i am happy as a pig in shit and want back in, as long as we’re truly go kill bad guys
I caught a couple interviews on FOX with their military panel, guys that know Mattis, and apparently he doesn’t like being called Mad Dog by anybody that didn’t serve with him.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mattis
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
Giveback our military back its pride. Reward loyalty, give justice to whistleblowers Obama has jailed, get the rules of engagement straightened out, being back RESPECT! Gads, the list is endless. Common sense coupled with practical experience, what a concept!
Mad Dog 2020 bum wine
And throw that worthless piece of excrement, Berghdal, asking for gender reassignment when COMBAT VETS are being mistreated, ignored and allowed to die, in traitors’ prison.
“If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all.”
Hoo RAH.
Theme to Cops
Mad Dog, Mad Dog…
Whatchya gonna do…
Whatchya gonna do when Mad Dog AIMs at you.
“We know what the definition of IS IS”
http://picpaste.com/Mad_Dogs_Sky_Dogs_GODs_House.jpg
Based on Mattis’ fundamental philosophy regarding the job at hand we will be seeing an abrupt end to the social engineering experiment that is now our military forces. There are three main avenues the Left seeks to infiltrate and change: education, the Church, and the military, in order to fundamentally change America. The military, fortunately, is not too far gone and is readily responsive to leadership changes.
God speed, Secretary Mattis!
More reminiscent of “Howlin Mad” Smith, but Army – Marine – what’s the diff …
izlamo delenda est …
A Trifecta.
A Marine’s Marine, a Warrior’s Warrior and Trump’s Secretary of Defense.
A soldier’s soldier.
He will not stand for rules of engagement that get his boys killed.
I am highly pleased
I imagine Trumps’ second pick would be R. Lee Ermey.
This is a comment on a thread about mattis at recieved this article in my E-Mail………
FROM RETIRED NAVY PILOT I PLAY TENNIS WITH……………………..
I’m in an email group with General Krulac who headed up the Marine Corps. He’s a superb officer. Those who care for the little guy really appreciate this type of officer. Mathis makes that cut.
A couple of months ago, when I told General Krulak,[USNA ‘64] the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, now the chair of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors, that we were having General Mattis speak this evening, he said, “Let me tell you a Jim Mattis story.”
General Krulak said, when he was Commandant of the Marine Corps, every year, starting about a week before Christmas, he and his wife would bake hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Christmas cookies. They would package them in small bundles.
Then on Christmas day, he would load his vehicle. At about 4 a.m., General Krulak would drive himself to every Marine guard post in the Washington-Annapolis-Baltimore area and deliver a small package of Christmas cookies to whatever Marines were pulling guard duty that day. He said that one year, he had gone down to Quantico as one of his stops to deliver Christmas cookies to the Marines on guard duty. He went to the command center and gave a package to the lance corporal who was on duty.
He asked, “Who’s the officer of the day?” The lance corporal said, “Sir, it’s Brigadier General Mattis.”
And General Krulak said, “No, no, no. I know who General Mattis is. I mean, who’s the officer of the day today, Christmas day?”
The lance corporal, feeling a little anxious, said, “Sir, it is Brigadier General Mattis.”
General Krulak said that, about that time, he spotted in the back room a cot, or a daybed. He said, “No, Lance Corporal. Who slept in that bed last night?”
The lance corporal said, “Sir, it was Brigadier General Mattis.”
About that time, General Krulak said that General Mattis came in, in a duty uniform with a sword, and General Krulak said, “Jim, what are you doing here on Christmas day? Why do you have duty?” General Mattis told him that the young officer who was scheduled to have duty on Christmas day had a family, and General Mattis decided it was better for the young officer to spend Christmas Day with his family, and so he chose to have duty on Christmas Day.
General Krulak said, “That’s the kind of officer that Jim Mattis is.”
The story above was told by Dr. Albert C. Pierce, the Director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at The United StatesNaval Academy. He was introducing General James Mattis, who gave a lecture on Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Conflict in the spring of 2006. This was taken from the transcript of that lecture.youngconservatives.
^ supposed to have read ‘at the youngconservative web site’