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Dakota Meyer slams jailing of US Marine who criticized Afghanistan withdrawal

2021-09-29 | 🔗
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer argues U.S. military leadership has become too political on 'Fox & Friends.'
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The last thirty days our son, has the last thirty days. Our son has spoke his truth and he is a very proud american, a very proud marine, a very principled man and he stood his ground and thats. What the Marines had taught him. He only spoke because what he saw happening and Kabul he couldnt take it. He had to speak out. He had to stand his ground Steve and he did there. You have an emotional response from the parents of a former Marine LT, Colonel Stuart Sheller, who was jailed hes been thrown in for criticizing the militarys withdrawal from Afghanistan. This comes as top generals are set to testify again today, this time before house lawmakers on what went wrong over there here to react: Fox NEWS, contributor and marine veteran and medal of Honor Recipient Dakota Meyer Dakota Good Morning Good morning, Steve, so they threw that LT
colonel in the Marines did because they couldnt stop him from tweeting out. Why is this? Why is the military supervisors? Why are they not being held accountable for what went wrong? Yeah look first off the military is a little bit different place to work and to be able to freedom of speech in the military is always something thats back and forth of what that exactly means right. I dont understand what grounds that the military has put him in in the brig for, but this is what the military does. What it tells me, though, is that either that theyre worried about what this guy is going to say. I just dont think that this is the right way to handle this. I think that look this man wants answers. This man came out and literally asked the same questions that all of us are asking, and I just think that this is a terrible move. I just dont understand what we
dont know yet of what regards do. They think this was going to be a smart move to put this man behind bars. As you seen an administration or you seen, someone try to do. Look at Eddie Gallagher, they tried to put him behind bars. They tried to shut him up multiple times all these things and that did not work out in their favor. At all, so I just dont understand how they thought this was wrong to me. In my opinion, it just shows me that our military leadership has gotten so political and that, with the left, they feel so empowered that they feel like they can do whatever they want and theyre not going to be held accountable, which is what were seeing with the top generals. So why would they think any different? But I dont think this is a smart move for them, and this is really going to come back and get them Steve. They just wanted to censor him and thats where hes sitting on this Wednesday morning, you mentioned the top generals. They were all on Capitol Hill yesterday talking to the Senate, they are going to be back today talking to the house, but yesterday Dakota, it was very clear. Their story is much
different than Joe Biden. Joe Biden said on tv forty days ago, yeah, I cant recall anybody telling me to leave two thousand five hundred people on the ground in Afghanistan. Yesterday, they all said yeah, we told them ultimately were not going to tell you a lot about what we told them, but we told them that well. This is Joe Bidens first real job where hes had to have accountability. You know Joe Biden has been able to for his entire career kind of walk around and skirt the one thing: responsibility and accountability in any of his jobs right. He was vice president. He walked around and smiled and you know wave his hand and President Obama would have to take the blame. Look theres. Nobody who doesnt want to be president anymore than Joe Biden right now with all the heat hes taking. So I think that thats part of it he just thinks. Well, I dont remember ive got a lot going on. I dont remember saying this, which I think is such a cop out
answer and theres no way that thats true, but they believe they can lie to the american people so much and that the american people will take it and if they keep saying it over and over and over again that the american people will then believe it, and that is where we have a huge issue. With this I mean youve got a general youve got the joint chief of staff. I mean hes, just an advisor hes, not even in charge of anybody. Hes the advisor to the President of the United States. He has no power, so, of course the administration doesnt have to take his advice, but I think that what one of the big issues we have is that the joint chief admitted to treason to collusion with the chinese government without having the presidents authority under the Trump Adminitration, and I dont understand how hes not in prison, not in the brig and youve got Lt Colonel Shell Erin, the brig, it doesnt make sense, Steve General Milley said yeah. I talked to Bob Woodward and it
didnt do anything that matters so anyway, they are all back in the hot seat today. Well, have it here on Fox.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-08.