{"id":55712,"date":"2014-10-09T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55712"},"modified":"2014-10-09T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:01:50","slug":"leon-panetta-is-a-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55712","title":{"rendered":"Leon Panetta is a POS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the day that Leon Panetta was nominated for the position of Secretary of Defense, this blog has had few kind words for him. Now that he’s saying the things that we want to hear, I see no need to change that policy. If you haven’t been paying attention, The National Journal<\/a> outlines some of the things that Panetta wrote in his book and that he’s saying on his book tour. But we said in the beginning that Panetta was nominated by this administration for his job for his political acumen not because he brought any war-fighting skills to the office.<\/p>\n

I’ll remind you that every f’n weekend while he was in office, Panetta flew his staff to his home in California at taxpayer expense ($33,000\/pop) while the troops he commanded spent months, if not years away from their families. While he was making those trips to the West Coast, he was planning to cut his subordinates’ healthcare and pay. He was a politician, not a leader.<\/p>\n

The National Journal titled their article “Why Obama Won’t Listen to Leon Panetta”. That’s easy, he wasn’t hired to be an adviser – he was hired to be a rubber stamp. Yeah, I know, he’s being tough on the president these days in interviews with O’Reilly and everyone else. So what? How is that courageous? Courage would have been resigning while this administration was destroying the Defense establishment of the United States instead of sniping from the sidelines years later.<\/p>\n

By the way, Panetta is a Clinton supporter – he’s always been a Clinton-supporter and his job these days is to clear the decks for Hillary’s run at the White House – to distance her from this failed administration.<\/p>\n

But remember, Panetta’s job at Defense was to screw the troops and to find Defense money to pay for the social programs at the expense of our National Security. Now, that job has fallen to Hagel.
\nPanetta is Washington and Washington is Panetta – everything that is wrong with both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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