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Michele Chang
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extremely frustrated with orders that the White House is contemplating. According to sources at the Pentagon, including all branches of the armed forces, the Obama Administration may break with a centuries-old tradition.
A spokesman for General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, states that the Obama Administration wants to have soldiers and officers pledge a loyalty oath directly to the office of the President, and no longer to the Constitution.
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2 comments:
I get the feeling this was written as satire or as a diversion.
"The President feels that the military has been too indoctrinated by the old harbingers of hate: nationalism, racism, and classism. By removing an oath to the American society, the soldiers are less likely to commit atrocities like those at Abu Ghraib."
The last sentence in that statement is absurd.
Of course it doesn't matter if the oath is changed. The military and office holders don't uphold the constitution anyway.
Good points all. I keep hoping a bunch of people in the military will all of a sudden decide to uphold the constitution, but that would probably be considered a military coup at this point. Scandalous.
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