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IMPEACHING GENERAL MILLEY AND SECRETARY AUSTIN
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HON. PAUL A. GOSAR
of arizona
in the house of representatives
Friday, September 10, 2021
Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to address the serious and deadly incompetence displayed by Mr. Biden and his current military staff, including General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin. The military leadership has been irresponsible, careless, and incompetent regarding Afghanistan. After 20 years, over $2 trillion wasted, and thousands of American lives lost, our military leadership lost this war and did so in a humiliating defeat played out in real time before the world.
Our enemies are emboldened as our military leaders showed cowardice and incompetence. Instead of resolve and a plan of action to exit a war they could not justify or win, they evacuated our troops and abandoned civilians. They abandoned our allies and left them to fend for themselves. The British were so incensed over this humiliating defeat and abandonment of their servicemembers on the field that the British Parliament passed a resolution censuring Mr. Biden, a first in our nation's history.
Our allies lost faith in their ability to count on us.
In addition, our military leaders, led by the strange General Milley, who is obsessed with homosexuality in the military and flying gay pride flags at every opportunity, informed Congress that we did not need to keep Bagram Air Base before the civilians were evacuated. His bungling led to a disaster with 13 of our servicemembers unnecessarily killed trying to control an airport that we had no control over and had many weak points compared to Bagram Air Base. His decision cost the lives of his troops.
On top of this disastrous incompetence, General Milley and Secretary Austin abandoned over $80 billion in our top-notch military equipment and allowed it to fall into the hands of the very military we had been opposing. Milley and Austin failed to create a plan to retrieve, scuttle or destroy our valuable equipment. Helicopters, airplanes, drones, missiles, automatic weapons, MRAPS, Humvees, ammunition, mortars and howitzers were all lost to the enemy even though our leaders knew where the equipment was yet did nothing to stop the acquisition by the Taliban.
This is gross incompetence and dereliction of duty. Both the very weirdly obsessed General Milley and Secretary Austin should have resigned in shame for the humiliation they brought to this country. But they have not. Therefore, we need to remove them. I will vote to impeach both Milley and Austin and remove the stain they have left on our military and our people.
I include in the Record a letter from Arizona Representative Walt Blackman. His letter needs to be read and shared and I join him in his conclusions.
September 3, 2021
To Whom It May Concern: I proudly served 21 years in the United States Army. Several times during my service I was on deployment to other countries. I was responsible for military equipment valued at millions of dollars.
I was trained as a private whose job was imperative to track, secure and dispose of military equipment in accordance with military regulation. While I was stationed at Fort Hood there was a time when our military installation was on complete lockdown because a soldier had misplaced a set of night vision goggles. Securing and tracking military equipment, especially sensitive items is a practice that is constantly drilled into all soldiers.
According to UCMJ any servicemember of the United States Armed Forces who either willfully or by neglect sells, damages, destroys, disposes of, or otherwise mismanages U.S. military property may face charges under Article 108 of the UCMJ.
The Commander in Chief Joe Biden and the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin have placed America as well as multiple other countries in a vulnerable situation by not properly handling military property. This has allowed very sensitive military equipment owned by the United States of America to fall into the hands of terroristic enemies. The Commander in Chief Joe Biden as well as the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin should be held accountable and in the same manner of the law as any other soldier would under Article 108 of the UCMJ.
I am requesting you impeach Joe Biden and court-martial the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley under Article 108 of the UCMJ.
Respectfully,
Walter Blackman,
Chairman, Criminal Justice Reform Judiciary
Public Safety and Military Affairs
Commissioner; Education Commission of the States Member, Legislative District 6
Phoenix, Arizona.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 156
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