Pete Hegseth Tells Senators About The Glut Of Four-Star Generals

Posted • January 15, 2025: Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth sat for his confirmation hearing in the Senate and was grilled by harpies such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Mazie Hirono … and Tim Walz. The post below shows what kind of open mind Warren was keeping: Elizabeth Warren @ewarren: “Pete Hegseth said women shouldn’t serve in combat. He was credibly accused of sexual assault. He ran two nonprofits into the ground. And he got so drunk at work events that colleagues felt they had to carry him back to his room. Can anyone really say he should run the Pentagon?” -- Yes, he should run the Pentagon. There was a great moment when Hegseth said a rule keeping generals from entering the defense industry for 10 years didn't apply to him … "I'm not a general, senator," he said.

Hegseth would be replacing four-star Gen. Lloyd Austin, who went missing for a few days during his tenure without telling anyone he was going under anesthesia. Wouldn't America be better off with a four-star general as Secretary of Defense? Hegseth made it clear that the military bureaucracy was bloated and he intended to cut the fat: Pete Hegseth: "We won WW2 with 7 four star generals. Today we have 44 four star generals... we don't need more bureaucracy at the top, we need more war fighters empowered at the bottom." 🔥🔥🔥 And how long has it been since we've won a war? This is the best thing I have heard concerning the military in years, this march towards a bloated top heavy bureaucracy in the military had been going on since slick Willy started promoting lap dog political generals in the nineties and it needs to change. (…)

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