On Nov. 19, two U.S. Senators and four Representatives, all of whom are “former” military and intelligence professionals, released a 90-second video message to all “uniformed American military and intelligence professionals,” in which they accused the Trump Administration of “pitting our uniformed military and intelligence officials against American citizens,” telling them that you can, and “must refuse illegal orders.”
The idea of Congress members telling the military to refuse “illegal orders” is outrageous on the face of it, not because the Trump Administration hasn’t issued illegal orders, but because these representatives are the “lawmakers” themselves, who are responsible for preventing our military from being used for unconstitutional purposes. What have Senators Alissa Slotikin (D-MI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) done to stop the funding of the Ukraine war or the genocide in Gaza? Nothing.
In fact, all six Congress members participated in wars in the Middle East, most of them in the infamous 2003 Iraq War to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which, according to outgoing (at long last) U.S. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, were known to not exist at the time the war was launched.
Notably, the ringleader of this seditious group of Congress members, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, was a CIA operative throughout the illegal war of aggression in Iraq, including being the “leader of a CIA Assessment Team” in Iraq from 2006 to 2007. Does anyone recall her courageous resignation in the face of that murderous war, which killed as many as 1 million Iraqis and several thousand Americans? Oops! She didn’t resign, as Southern Commander Adm. Alvin Holsey had the integrity to do in the face of illegal U.S. military actions in the Caribbean.
Sen. Mark Kelly flew 39 combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait in the 1990-91 “Operation Desert Storm” and remained in the military through the 2003 Gulf War, up until 2011.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) was a U.S. Army Ranger who did three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan after September 11, 2001.
