RetiredGySgt
Diamond Member
You don't appear to understand how the chain of command works. Our military is under the control of elected civilian leaders.
The president (Bush) appoints generals that broadly support implementing his policies, and fires or dismisses those who either don't support him, or who fail at implementing his policies:
Your the one that does not understand. Generals are promoted not by the President at all. And he has little to do with Commanders except through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Military choses who runs what division , though the President usually has a voice in higher commands he doesn't usually pick who will command the regions either. Now he can ,and previous Presidents have, Fire Generals from specific high level commands. I do not think a President has ever fired or had anything to do with Division or Corps Commanders though.
For your theory to work he would have had to been able to pick the 2nd Lts 20 to 25 to 30 years ago to get the Generals he wants now. Now the Different Service Chiefs have a lot of say but Generally they leave it up to the military itself to pick and chose who gets promoted. There are few and they are far between, Generals ever promoted because of a President and Bush hasn't promoted any.
He has the choice on head of JCS and a say in the rest of that group.
Your total lack of understanding is appalling but is indicative of just about everyone on the left.
And now explain how he hand picked career diplomats to be where he need them to lie for him. He picks the Ambassador but the diplomats are almost totally career people.