Former top military brass question Biden’s health
More than 120 retired generals and admirals have published an open letter questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election as well as President Biden’s fitness to be commander-in-chief.
The letter, which was first reported by Politico, bears the
heading of a group calling itself “Flag Officers 4 America” and claims the
United States “is in deep peril” and Americans are “in a fight for our survival
as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776.”
Among the letter’s 126 signatories are retired Rear Adm.
John Poindexter, who spent a year as national security adviser under Ronald
Reagan and was convicted of lying to Congress and obstructing the congressional
investigation of the Iran-Contra affair (the conviction was later reversed),
and retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, who spent five years as deputy
undersecretary of defense for intelligence under George W. Bush and is now
executive vice president of the Family Research Council.
“Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect
the ‘will of the people’ our Constitutional Republic is lost. Election
integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per
citizen,” the letter reads before going on to accuse critics of voter ID laws
of engaging in a “tyrannical intimidation tactic.”
“Additionally, the ‘Rule of Law’ must be enforced in our
election processes to ensure integrity,” the letter continues. “The FBI and
Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and
not ignore them as was done in 2020.”
The letter echoes repeated claims made by former President
Donald Trump that the election was stolen from him by Democrats. There is no
evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, much less fraud in
sufficient numbers to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
Later in the letter, the signatories say Biden’s “mental and
physical condition … cannot be ignored.”
“He must be able to quickly make accurate national security
decisions involving life and limb anywhere, day or night,” it says. “Recent
Democrat leadership’s inquiries about nuclear code procedures sends a dangerous
national security signal to nuclear armed adversaries, raising the question
about who is in charge. We must always have an unquestionable chain of command.”
The letter touches on a number of controversial issues,
including coronavirus restrictions (which it describes as “population
control”), relations with China, the Iran nuclear deal, and the Keystone
Pipeline. It also accuses lawmakers of using the military “as political pawns”
in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, told Politico that the letter “hurts the military and by
extension it hurts the country,” though he also noted that it was not signed by
any high-ranking officers.
“It’s not very senior,” he said. “In our world it’s not very
significant in terms of people.”
Others were less sanguine, with retired Air Force Col.
Marybeth Ulrich labeling the letter “anti-democratic.”
“That was way worse than I was expecting,” she told
Politico. “They are perpetuating the big lie about the election. I think it is
outrageous … They are absolutely violating the norm to be apolitical. They are
being used for partisan purposes. They are going against their constitutional
oath.”
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle, who organized the
letter, acknowledged to Politico that “retired generals and admirals normally
do not engage in political actions, but the situation facing our nation today
is dire and we must speak out in order to be faithful to our oath to support
and defend the Constitution of the U.S. against all enemies, foreign and
domestic.
We are facing threats greater than at any other time since
our country was founded … many of these threats flow directly from policy
positions and actions of our own government,” Arbuckle added. “It is critical
that the threats to our national security be brought to the attention of the
American people and that is the main purpose of the letter. To remain silent
would be a dereliction of duty.”
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