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dropped late this afternoon that mark green is gone. he pulled his name. the fact that mark green was ever nominated for this job in the first place, the fact that he is the second nominee who tried and failed to become army secretary is just in itself ridiculous, right? it s just a ridiculous process. it s ridiculous for him to have been a candidate given what s available on him in the public record. it is ridiculous for the white house that they put him forward without apparently doing any vetting. their vetting process for national security positions, even for really important national security positions, appears to be about as difficult as the application process to get into trump university. but because these are national security jobs, it isn t just ridiculous, it s also stomach-churning, right? i mean, this guy was nominated to be secretary of the army. within the last week a u.s. navy s.e.a.l. was killed in somalia fighting under combat restrictions that the trump administratio
he s pulled his name. and the fact that mark green was ever nominated for this job in the first place, the fact that he s now the second nominee to try and fail to become army secretary, is itself ridiculous. right? it s just a ridiculous process. it s ridiculous for him to have been a candidate given what s available on him in the public record. it is ridiculous for the white house that they put him forward without apparently doing any vetting. their vetting process for security positions appears to be about as difficult as the application process to get into trump university. but because these are national security jobs, it isn t just ridiculous it s also stomach churning. this guy was nominated to be secretary of the army. within the last week a u.s. navy s.e.a.l. was killed in somalia fighting under combat restrictions that the trump administration just loosened there.
somalia fighting under combat restrictions that the trump administration just loosened there. the first u.s. combat casualty since 1993. since glak blackhawk down. he was killed yesterday. also within the past week two army rangers were killed in fighting eastern afghanistan. also within the past week an army paratrooper was killed on patrol outside mosul where the trump administration has quietly and without announcement been sending more and more u.s. troops. next week the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is going to ask for thousands more u.s. troops to be sent into afghanistan, once again. and whether or not you look at this new president and you think, that s a capable commander in chief, i trust him to be making wise decisions about the men and women of the american armed forces. whether or not you think that, there is precisely one senate confirmed nominee in the entire pentagon, secretary of defense, that s it. there s like 58 senate confirmable positions in the
and the fact that mark green was ever nominated for this job in the first place, the fact that he s now the second nominee to try and fail to become army secretary, is itself ridiculous. right? it s just a ridiculous process. it s ridiculous for him to have been a candidate given what s available on him in the public record. it is ridiculous for the white house that they put him forward without apparently doing any vetting. their vetting process for security positions appears to be about as difficult as the application process to get into trump university. but because these are national security jobs, it isn t just ridiculous it s also stomach churning. this guy was nominated to be secretary of the army. within the last week a u.s. navy s.e.a.l. was killed in somalia fighting under combat restrictions that the trump administration just loosened there. the first u.s. combat since