Wannabe Gen Amos ever the d-bag.

Amos fired two Marine Generals for the disaster at Camp Bastion Afghanistan.  Never hear of Camp Bastion?  Not surprised.  After the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, ordered by the King himself, Taliban insurgents over ran an air facility killing two Marines - LtCol Christopher Raible and Sgt Bradley Atwell - and destroying six Harrier attack jets.

The Afghan attack came on the heels of another better known attack, the Islamo-Terror-Fascist’s attack on the consulate in Benghazi.  But that attack as we all know doesn’t make any difference at this point, because it was a direct result of some unseen video. Had the Lapdog Media given either event the attention it deserved, it would have been enough to drive a steak into the heart of King's claim the “he” had al Qaeda on the run during the 2012 presidential campaign.  But affirmative action being what it is, it got the king where he is and it will keep him in power at all cost.  So our Lapdog media see nothing, hear nothing and certainly would never say anything against the king.

Camp Bastion was a British run coalition air base.  There in lies a bunch of the problem.  The Brits relied on a wire fence and host nation troops for security at bastion.  Marine Corps axiom: Never rely on somebody else for your security.  One of the fired Generals, Charles M Gurganus, asked for an additional 160 Marines to secure Camp Bastion.  In light of the King’s drawdown, Gurganus’s request was denied.

Famous Amos, from the comfort and security of his E Ring office determined that, request for additional security troops be damned, Gurganus didn’t do enough to secure the facility under British control and fired him.  Given the result of the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion, I guess that is an undeniable conclusion.

Left out of Amos’s conclusion however was any culpability for the King and his band of half-wit minions more interested in winning an election than providing security for forward deployed troops and ambassadors.  But as politically incorrect as it would have been to reinforce the Marines at Camp Bastion in the face of a near certain insurgent attack, it would be doubly politically incorrect to try to assign any responsibility for the result of that attack on the King.

Now, I think the two generals had to go, and Amos was in no way responsible for the results of the attack.  Thank goodness Amos is not combatant commander.  That’s not my problem.  What is disturbing is that this offers another perfect opportunity for Amos to do the right thing and resign.  He could walk into the Oval Office, push the king’s feet off of the People’s Desk and throw his stars on the desk.  Ever going to happen?  Nope.

In other Famous Amos news, the Marine Corps whistle blower who exposed Amos’s unlawful interference in the Marine Corps “urination scandal,” Maj James Weirick, has been harassed out of his billet as a Marine lawyer on the case.  As in all of these cases, there is a thin veil of cause for the dismissal and removal from his office under guard.  Weirick sent an e-mail to a colleague inside Amos’s legal circle asking him to “come clean” on the case. Oh the humanity!  An e-mail?  How can Weirick stay on the case after sending an e-mail to colleague asking him to tell the truth?  Weird huh?   You’d think if he sent an e-mail asking the guy to lie, he’d be in deep do-do.  Asking him to tell the truth seems downright American and consistent with a legal system interested in the truth.

Seems the Marine Corps legal system is now more interested covering Famous Amos’s arse at all cost than it is in anything having to do with the truth.  Look, Amos might be a heck of a nice guy – I doubt it.  Nice guys don’t go around asking the convening authority in a courts martial to “crush” defendants before the first piece of evidence is presented.  They do not remove and replace that convening authority when he refuses.  They don’t classify every piece of exculpatory evidence in a case to keep it from the defense.  They don’t persecute people who expose their shenanigans.   Everything I know about Amos tells me he is a dirt bag who, like his boss and his boss’s boss, is in way over his head.