from WND...
U.S. general: Let's make Obama resign
Cites Nixon resignation, urges citizens 'to save republic'
from Washington leadership
F. Michael Maloof, staff writer for WND and G2Bulletin, is a
former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of
defense.
WASHINGTON
– A retired Army general is calling for the “forced resignations” of President
Obama, other administration officials and the leadership of Congress for the
direction they’re taking the nation, his list of grievances including the
systematic political purge of hundreds of senior military officers in the U.S.
military.
Retired
Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely told WND he is calling for nationwide rallies and
protests to demand the resignations and added that a peaceful “civil uprising
is still not out of question.”
In his
capacity as chairman of the organization Stand Up America, Vallely issued
what he termed a “National Call to Action” to force the resignations of Obama,
Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Vallely,
formerly the deputy commanding general of Pacific Command, said the current
crop of leaders must be forced to resign by the “demand resignation” process,
which he explained requires massive grass-roots protests and social networking.
As an example, he cited the public and media pressure that led to the
resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Impeachment,
Vallely said, is not a viable option because of “partisan politics.”
“Our
federal government continues down the path of destroying America,” he said.
“Americans must now stand up and put America back on the right track.”
In issuing
his national call to action, Vallely said the federal government has not
subsided in “sucking the oxygen” out of America.
“And we
call to action all branches of government to do your constitutional duties and
not be led astray in the cultural and moral decay of America. We have witnessed
far too many lies,” he said, as well as “deception and the corruption of the
republic.”
Vallely
reminds Americans that the Declaration of Independence itself states that
whenever “any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
form, as to them shall seem more likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”
Vallely
said the nation he long defended is self-destructing “before our very eyes,” because
of “our inept and incompetent leadership in Washington.”
“The battle
is on,” he added, “and we shall not retreat.”
Vallely,
who has also served as a Fox News military analyst, claimed the Obama
administration and leadership of Congress have been leading the nation down a
road of “progressive socialism.”
The retired
general said the U.S. faces a battle that is unknown to generations of
Americans, and that the fate of the nation is “now in our hands” to enforce the
Constitution and “severely limit the federal government and its out-of-control
spending.”
He said
conditions today are approaching those of the time of the inaugural address of
President Abraham Lincoln, who said at the time that people have a “right to
rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one.”
“Shake
off,” said Vallely, “means replacing government leaders.” He argued America
today bears “many similarities to the fall of Rome.” America, he added, is not
immune to collapse or even revolution, which he notes “has happened many times
in history. … External and internal threats could precipitate this as well as
any financial collapse.”
Vallely
added that “politics as usual will not be effective or sufficient enough to
turn the country around.”
“We are in
a war for America,” he told WND, adding that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Dr.
Ben Carson, the noted brain surgeon and author of “America
the Beautiful” and other bestselling
books have made similar observations.
Americans
have had enough, he said, and the Obama White House and identifiable members of
Congress “must now depart from a progressive socialist and treasonous death
march and bankrupting the country beyond expectations.”
“A civil
uprising is still not out of the question as ‘pain’ grips the country more each
day,” Vallely said, adding that there is time to change the country in a
peaceful way.
“This means
raising your voice now to your neighbors, family, co-workers and friends,” he
said. “Be the captains of your souls. I pray for another George Washington to
appear within the year and lead us.”
One of the
issues that alarms Vallely is the high number of senior officers in the U.S.
military who have been fired under the Obama administration, a toll estimated
at one officer per week. Indeed, Vallely has
been very outspoken to what he calls a “purge” of the U.S. military by the
Obama administration — with a stunning nine generals and flag officers
relieved of duty this year alone.
WND has
been reporting on the surge of firings, suspensions and dismissals, for which Vallely has assigned a good portion of the
blame to Obama’s close adviser, Valerie Jarrett. Rampant “political
correctness” due to her influence, Vallely tells WND, is now permeating the
military and negatively affecting everyone from top generals to the ranks of
the enlisted.
According
to Vallely, Obama is “intentionally weakening and gutting our military,
Pentagon and reducing the U.S. as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who
disagrees or speaks out is being purged.”
Vallely equated the current treatment of
U.S. senior military officers watching over what is said and done among
mid-level officers and enlisted ranks to that of the “political commissars from
the Communist era.”
He also told WND that the White House won’t
investigate its own officials, but finds it easy to fire military commanders
“who have given their lives for their country.”
“Obama will
not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into
Obama’s ideology,” Vallely said. “The White House protects their own. That’s
why they stalled on the investigation into Fast and Furious, Benghazi and
Obamacare. He’s intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and
reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks
out is being purged.”
He’s far
from alone in his concerns about the military purge, as J.D. Gordon, a retired Navy commander and a
former Pentagon spokesman in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, says the
Obama administration is rushing to unload senior officers whom he believes have
become “political pawns” dismissed for questionable reasons.
Retired
Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a recipient of the U.S. military’s highest
decoration, the Medal of Honor, similarly has told WND that Obama needs to
apply the same standards to his political appointees as he does to the
military.
“Just when
you thought the leadership of this government could not get any worse, it
does,” Brady said. “Never in history has an administration spawned another
scandal to cover the current one.”
This was a
reference to the recent firing of a number of generals to mask “Obama’s serial
scandals, all prefaced by lies – Fast and Furious, Benghazi, NSA, IRS,” among
others, said Brady, former president of the Congressional Medal of Honor
Society.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin,
who was a founding member of Delta Force and later deputy undersecretary of
defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush, tells WND it is
worrying that four-star generals are being retired at the rate that has
occurred under Obama.
“Over the past
three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be
relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause,” Boykin said. “I
believe there is a purging of the military. The problem is worse than we have
ever seen.”
