I thought long and hard about this post, but after doing my due diligence to get the full drift of your senseless, destructive, undeserving slander of our president, I cannot hold back. Just so you know, this is from a retired Marine colonel who spent nearly as much time in uniform as you. And considering my love of the Corps and my brothers and sisters, it does not bother me one bit to state without any equivocation you are a disgrace to our Marine uniform.
Who do you think you are to speak out in such a disgraceful manner against a sitting president? Do you believe your rank entitles you to talk such trash? By your recent actions and words, you’ve aligned yourself with the Hollywood trash who think anyone with half a brain would take anything they say with a grain of salt. You Mr. Mattis (I will not call you by your rank — you do not deserve it) are a disgrace to my Corps. I believe the only people who genuinely care about what you said are your fellow Marines who are disgusted with your pompous ass.
According to your own words you have over 7,000 books in your library. It’s now obvious to me you have not read any of them. You said, “We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.” WHAT? Are you kidding me? Where have you been lately, under a rock? Countless people killed and injured including many police officers, millions and millions of dollars’ worth of buildings destroyed and burned to the ground, many privately-owned stores and commercial establishments who had just opened after being closed because of the virus, all gone. Major stores looted; nothing left on the shelves. Yet you call that a small number of lawbreakers?
Then the biggest lie of all is when you state no president in your lifetime has been as divisive as President Trump. Where were you during the eight years of Obama? Oh, that’s right he fired your ass too. It seems the only arena in which you have been able to keep a job is in the military. Hmm, what does that tell me? Remember Mr. Mattis, I was there, well before you.
I always had my doubts about you especially after you fired a great Marine friend of mine whom I had a small hand in shaping his career. He told me things about you that caused me to believe you were nothing more than an egotistical liberal. I was, however, surprised when you took the job offered by President Trump to be our Sec Def. But then he too fired your ass. I have not researched it in detail, but I do believe you are the first general to ever be fired by two sitting presidents, the first a liberal racist and the other a conservative doer. How does that feel? How’s that for a legacy?
You Mr. Mattis are a despicable, egotistical, self-centered person of no value to my country.
Signed; Jim Bathurst, Col, USMC (Ret)
Originally posted 2020-06-05 10:50:12.
I don’t care for Trumps tweets and some of his comments but I do appreciate his love of country and his actions speak louder than words. He has done great things for our country but threatens the corrupt legions of the Deep State. God is in control and if Trump loses in 2020 we will get what we deserve !
semper fi sir! God Bless America. so disappointed in mattis..shameful what he had done obviosly his pride and ego damaged and puts himself b4 the country im retired military 1975-1998 (USMC/TXARNG) retired postal worker1998-2013 Texan conservative Christian prayers for USA & this earth lost souls we are in a war God is on our side & satsn is leading our enemies
Thank you Britt for your comment and your service.
The most valuable and worthy lesson I learned as a United States Marine in my 4 year enlistment and as a young NCO was leadership by example. To me that means living your best life and also being prepared if needed to protect yourself and your community if necessary. By that it doesn’t mean going out and looking for a fight necessarily unless of course you know under no uncertain terms that a fight is immenent.
We all were trained to stat vigilant. Do do that. Speak to your children about the current state we live in. Help them understand the best way you can what has happened and how we have landed here. But for God’s sake Marines that phrase we say to eachother so often… “Semper Fidelis”. Those words aren’t isolated to only us as Marines. That is the given. Semper Fidelis also means staying faithful to country and that includes our citizens. My faith in this country and our citizens remains strong and intact and I dont just believe… I know we will find a way to come together and rise from all of this stronger and wiser. I personally am a Trump supporter. That’s my business. To the people that do not support him I just want to say that he is merely a symptom of the desperation that so many of us felt after 8 disasterous years of Obama. He is a symptom of the left trying to create a socialist state from our democracy. As long as you continue trying to take our democracy from us there will emerge a new version of Trump. That is the beauty of democracy. That us why served and took the oath that im just as willing to carry out today as I was 25 years ago when I swore to it for the first time. Semper Fidelis Marines.
Well said Zach, bless you and Semper Fi brother!
Jim,
I don’t believe you have all the facts to render such an opinion. Mattis, Kelly and McRaven all came out and talked about how divisive Trump is. And he is.
Here is an example. I filed a lawsuit (notice of tort claim) against the DOJ, FBI, and CIA for attempting to murder me and trafficking my daughters. Trump knows about this and it is sitting on his desk as we speak, yet he does nothing.
This is happening due to the fact that my dad shot JFK, and all this secret society bullshit is playing out right now. This started with Obama, so I thought I would get a fair shake with Trump. Instead, he carried out the same policy to attempt to assassinate me, and when that didn’t work, he tried to have me imprisoned for 17 years because I believe the CIA was out to kill me because my dad was the “French Gunman on the Grassy Knoll”.
When I saw your letter, I felt compelled to respond, as I don’t think you have all the facts.
Additionally, May 5, I sent a letter to Judge Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case. The DOJ dropped the case May 7th against him. Then I sent another letter May 9th to Judge Gorton in the Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli case outlining the corruption within the CIA, FBI and DOJ. They reached a plea deal a few days later.
And you have seen the fallout in the Flynn case. I actually put a poison pill in there, revealing some TSSCI information, which they cannot allow to go unaddressed. That’s why Sullivan did not sign off on the dismissal.
I am letting you know this, as I believe you are ignorant to the facts of what is going on. Just trying to educate you a bit.
Matt
former SEAL and PJ.
Sir, I thank you for your comment, believed or not, and I thank you for your service. Beyond that I think you are full of crap. LOL
Agreed! If a sitting President is corrupt and unworthy of his office it is ALL our duty to speak up. This Colonel’s words are as much an idiotic rant as when Trump speaks. He lost my respect when he criticized Mattis for standing up to Trump because apparently that isn’t something you should do in the military even if your leader is wrong. See something, keep your mouth shut is apparently his motto.
Hmm, I did not know I ever had your respect sir. So if I didn’t know I had, how can I miss it. Thanks for your perspective. BTW the president was duly elected, Mr. Mattis was not. Read his bio sir, you might change your mind about him and his big mouth. Stay safe.
Tell it like it is Jim , someone had to say it. Semper Fi stay safe and healthy everyone.
There is a saying that opines ‘the higher one rises the greater the fall’ which is what I thought when I read the General Mattis article. Despite the regard many have for him it read to me he as no more than an aging man attempting to stay publicly relevant. IMO he embarrassed himself and other Marines (I served 67-71) with his comments about a sitting President. There was a higher road available that he missed or ignored.
Semper Fi
Colonel, I’m a retired MGySgt who worked for/around several generals in my career. I applaud your comments, sir. Mattis should take MacArthur’s (another general who was a legend in his own mind, imho) advice to heart and “just fade away”. If you compare his bio to world events, he never saw combat below the 04/05 level…which means he didn’t kick in any doors or look at an armed adversary across sights for real. His bravado about killing and brawling is mostly his own hype, slung to impress the uniformed and ridden to a fat bank account from book sales. Semper Fi!
LOL, you are so correct Master Guns, he never pulled a trigger except at the range!
Mattis the new Benedict Arnold
Bring him back to active duty and strip him of his rank!
Col. Snowflake, don’t you ever utter the words Semper Fidelis again. You’re human scum if you back Trump over General Mattis.
Snowflake? LOL OMG, Have been called many things in near 80 years of living but never that horrific word. My only comment is it probably takes one to know one, albeit I am certainly the furthest human from a snowflake you, sir, will ever meet. Oh, and if it warrants it, Semper Fi.
Colonel Jim, I am appalled with the position that Mattis took and especially John Kelly who took the same position. I spent 40 years in the Army as enlisted, NCO and retired as a Colonel. I worked for Mattis at CENTCOM, I thought he was a good leader, but this position he took shows me another face I never thought I would see. Both he and Kelly slammed the POTUS and are endorsing this riotous, looting act they call a peaceful demonstration. Our leaders are losing or have lost their way. I have seen this in the Army as with Petraus and a number of other Generals who think they can do as they please. I agree with your article and I have said the same thing and got slammed by Officers and NCO’s in the Army since I have retired. Keep up the fight, I have your back.
Thank you Joe!
I have to agree with you about him speaking of the president as he does. If he is a marine, which he obviously forgot, he would not speak about his leader on that fashion. I have not been military I was taught respect.
Your right about Mattis he was and is out of line! Our system allows for freedom of speech and thought but if you take an oath such as what you have taken and you serve this country then you must respect authority! He is a duly elected president which means our fellow Americans voted him into office and he is our president. Commander in chief! We must support him especially if we are in his cabinet.
Col, I am in total agreement with your statements. It is apparent that the former Marine has forgotten his oath, to our country, to defend our nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. Mattis is without class, Why he couldn’t have just kept his disagreements to himself, He has done nothing to further the healing of our nation with his rant. And to the individuals that continue to bag on Trump, draft dodger etc, they have forgotten, he was elected to the office, period. So get out of your parents basement and do something constructive and quit your bitching. Although I was only in the corps for 3 years, with 13 months in Vietnam, I remember those 3 years more clearly than I do the last 50. Bottom line, democrats, which depend on the dependent, have had only one goal in mind, the destruction of this administration. what a shame, they don’t care who or what they destroy to do it. The use of former Marine was not by accident.
Amen Mark, thank you sir
Sir, thank.you for your open letter. Even know I was not in the Marine Corps, i am a Retired Veteran of 30 active years service in the United States Army. I have served under six presidents. I will address (Ret) General Mattis with his title. He earned it just like you did I never spoke out against a sitting president while I served.. i tell you all this because i respect the men and woman who serve this great nation is any capacity. But what General Mattis said against a sitting president is wrong. It is his right under the constitution, but you and I know it’s wrong morally wrong. I am a true Republican, I voted for President Trump and I will vote for him again for president of the United States. I do believe that the Left has gotten a hold of both General Mattis and General Kelly. General Kelly should be in the same boat as General Mattis. Both in my books have disgraced their egotistical selves. There is a reason they both are unemployed by the US Government. If they plan on getting in they have to switch parties. Thank you for taking the time to put your thoughts down.
Signed
Ret. CSM
Thank you Command Sergeant Major for your perspective!
Great to hear your perspective Colonel. I agree with you 100%
I was disappointed with how this all developed.
You are spot on.
Semper Fi
Gary
Col Bathurst. Well said. First Mattis does a book, and then this. There is honesty, and then there is opportunism.Sadly, I think the General missed a few classes in History (considering he is a history buff with many books). But what gets me, is that I remember the airstrike by a B-52 bomber that inadvertently targeted a position held by US special operations troops & Afghan militiamen (in Urozgan Province). Many men were wounded in the incident, but the General repeatedly refused to dispatch helicopters from the nearby Camp Rhino to recover them (alleging operational safety concerns). So, the Air Force from Uzbekistan got to them instead. And there was no investigation? We won’t go into the Syrian wedding debacle (and his attitude about it either). Be as it may, the man has done good things as well, and I honor him for that. But throwing POTUS under the bus while there is a national emergency (in order to score points) was beneath him and he should have known it, Instead, I think he is believing his own press (and thinks that his shit doesn’t stink). I am glad you called him out, and are sticking to your guns. You and I are nobodies in the scheme of things (he gets all of the press), but I will say this. Respect is also earned (along with the EGA). I never served under his command, so I do not know him personally…. but his mis-steps were more than enough to be handed his hat way before he became a 4 star.
Semper Fi, Col. – Steinar Andersen/E4/1981-1988 (non combat Marine)
Maybe this is why you retired as a Colonel and Mattis retired as a 4 star. You must have been passed over twice because you couldnt cut it.
I served 2 tours in the Corps in Vietnam, totally disabled,,; wounded twice. Officers like you are the reason we are in the position we are today. I’m no fan of Mattis, but what exactly did he say that wasn’t true? What would happen to you if you wrote this infantile letter as you did about Mattis when you were on active duty? So put down the whiskey bottle and stop smoking meth. Because your mind is extremely diluted.
LOL, that’s funny, in fact hilarious. You know absolutely nothing about which you clamor sir. One would never write or post anything such as what I did or what Mr. Mattis did should we have been on active duty — there is a law in Title 10 that prohibits that. But once retired, and oh I mean over 30 you can say as you like. Under 30 you can be recalled on active duty. So I have the right and so did Mr. Mattis. Oh, and thank you for your service in combat . I assume yoiu were a trigger puller, as was I, but Mattis never pulled a trigger except at the range. Do your vetting sir before you speak out. Read his Bio and read mine.
Mr. Weichert, looks to me you have no idea what is happening in this country or you don’t care as those who work very hard to destroy it. I have no respect for anyone that does that no matter if they are in uniform or not. My husband died defending people’s rights to talk trash.
Any Military person assisting the President of the United States needs to support HIS President of the United States of America. Who’s agenda was he trying to help? Not President Trump’s agenda apparently! This shit storm is another undermining attempt to damage our President and our country.
Any veteran who chooses to slander and disrespect President Trump, like Mattis did, deserves to be shunned from the brotherhood of the Marines for the rest of his life. Mattis, you obviously have real issues in keeping your mouth shut when you should. Apologize for your insubordination!
Apologize? Nah. If you know anything at all about the man, you should know there will be no apology forth coming.
Mattis does not bear the weight of command, so it’s easy for him to bitch rather than put up or shut up, and he was apparently asleep while Obama was President – that or he’s a two-faced liar.
I think that all of Mattis’ PR went to his head and he’s channeling that other egomaniac Douglas MacArthur, as MacArthur did with President Truman.