The United States of America has suffered a failure of leadership. The failure is huge. Respsonsibility rests with the Executive Branch of Government and our President appears unfit to govern. Untrained units have been deployed as an occupying force to a war zone. In the vacuum of moral authority, members of these units engage in criminal acts. The President promises to investigate and punish individuals responsible. Yet he shares responsibility with every individual, every criminal, he has deployed to Iraq. The inhuman treatment of people there is his responsibility.
And it is mine.
Through March of 2003, I acted to prevent a war that was needless, a war that would be fought for the personal and familial and corporate aggrandizement of the Bush mob. Since March of 2003, that war has been fought. It is far from over. It is being fought in my name and I want it stopped. Immediate impeachment is the only way I see to bring a quick halt to thgese barbarous acts of criminal assault on an entire people.
“A-2. Commissioned officers are direct representatives of the President of the United States. Commissions are legal instruments the president uses to appoint and exercise direct control over qualified people to act as his legal agents and help him carry out his duties. The Army retains this direct-agent relationship with the president through its commissioned officers. The commission serves as the basis for a commissioned officer’s legal authority. Commissioned officers command, establish policy, and manage Army resources. They are normally generalists who assume progressively broader responsibilities over the course of a career.”
“A-16. When a leader is assigned a task or duty, the authority necessary to accomplish it accompanies the assignment. When a leader delegates a task or duty to a subordinate, he delegates the requisite authority as well. However, leaders always retain responsibility for the outcome of any tasks they assign. They must answer for any actions or omissions related to them.”
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