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keep_it_real Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:20 PM
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Top U.S. Air Force official resigns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley has resigned, and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne may also be on the brink of resigning, the defense publication InsideDefense.com reported on Thursday.

"Top-level Pentagon officials gave Moseley the option to resign or be fired during a meeting this morning," the website reported, quoting an unidentified military official. "Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne also could resign later today," it said.

Moseley is the Air Force's top uniformed officer.

(Reporting by Julie Vorman; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

That's the whole report:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWAT00960420080605
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:22 PM
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1. What do you bet, they refuse to bomb Iran?
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:24 PM
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3. Great minds think alike... Now someone (or bodies) better step the hell up...
and stop this shit before it gets off the ground...
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 08:48 AM
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7. I hope with their resignations, they immediately go to the press.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 09:23 PM
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2. So, has this something to do with not wanting to attack Iran? Just speculating! n/t
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spindrifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:08 PM
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4. This rumble with the Air Force has been going on
Edited on Thu Jun-05-08 10:09 PM by spindrifter
for a while. The bad thing is that they don't need the Air Force if the Navy is "on board." Too bad there isn't a mass walk-out at the Pentagon...
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:12 PM
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5. were they part of the evangelical christian wing of the air force...?
or is part of the reason that they're out is because they aren't...?
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-05-08 10:12 PM
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6. My money says they got kicked out because they refused to obey orders to bomb Iran.
I know it's speculative, but that's where my money is if I were a betting person.

Eventually, the only people left will be the "Yes Men." They never say no.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-06-08 09:01 AM
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8. I don't think it has anything to do with refusing to bomb anyone
After the year the Air Force has had, I really don't.

I DO think, though, that sometime today during the Friday News Dump, something really fucking bad is going to break. So far this year we found out they shipped ICBM fuzes to a foreign country and flew six nuclear weapons across the country without realizing what they were until the plane was offloaded at its destination. This will be worse--maybe they prestaged the nuclear weapon they were going to use on Teheran in the Middle East and someone in the Air Force Ammunition Supply Point who knew what it was sent a picture of it to his hometown newspaper. That's probably not what it was, but something at that level.

Whatever it is, it will be bad enough that they need to rid themselves of the Civilian Leadership if they want to save Shrub's sorry ass from hard questions.
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