Are military orders optional now ?

Who would believe six Congressmen put out a video advising U.S. servicemen and women to disobey an order from the president.

Of course they were all left-wing Democrats who did it and they used the adjective “illegal” preceding the word order.

And the entire mess was to imply that President Donald Trump issues illegal orders, which he hasn’t, and they were careful to paint their sedition in ambiguous terms.

These Congressmen are termed as military veterans. They include Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona a former Navy captain; Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former intelligence officer; Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Deluzio, a former U.S. Navy officer; Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, a former Air Force officer; New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodlander, a former intelligence officer, and Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, a former U.S. Army officer.

It’s not enough for the left to condone rioting and pillaging of U.S. cities, citing made-up excuses, now they are attempting to prevent the U.S. military from protecting the nation based on what some serviceperson, influenced by leftist propaganda, says.

Where is the loyalty they swore to provide when they joined the military?

Although the lawmakers did not specify which Trump orders were unlawful, Democrats have expressed concerns about the legality of Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to American cities and his extrajudicial strikes on boats in the Caribbean reported to be carrying illegal drugs destined to kill American citizens. California historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, author and columnist Victor Davis Hanson puts it all in perspective and providing some commonsense on his Daily Signal podcast.

He observed: “Democrats who told military personnel not to follow orders are not being honest.” He expanded on this summation this way: “We have 1.3 million soldiers on active duty, and there are representatives – six of them Congress people and senators – who say on this video, and they all say we have served, we’re veterans, and you don’t have to obey an unlawful order, OK? And it’s in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

“The idea is that [President] Donald Trump is issuing unlawful orders. They don’t cite one, not one. So, really, the message then becomes, “Hey, you 1.3 million soldiers, you all are lawyers. So, when your commanding officer says, ‘Get in the helicopter, fly through the fog, and look for the downed pilot,’ you say, ‘That’s an unlawful order. I’m not going to.’

“That is the message. If the message is, ‘Wink, nod, Donald Trump has been giving unlawful orders, but we don’t want to specify which ones,’ there’s a reason for that. And we’ve heard that it’s unlawful to use military force abroad without a congressional authorization.

“False. [Former President] Barack Obama killed dozens of people with Predator drones, including a U.S. citizen. … “George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Harry Truman – they’ve all used it. If it’s you can’t send federal troops into a city that’s under siege, [Secretary of State] Colin Powell begged to use 5,000 Marines for the Rodney King [riots], he did. And we’ve had, I think, seven instances where presidents have sent troops in: World War I veterans, Civil War draft, you name it.

“So, they can’t list one thing. And then they say, Uniform Code of Military Justice. OK, Mr. Left-wing Representatives, go look at Article 90 and 92. And it does say you can obey, but then it has lawful and unlawful orders. And you go look at the instances when you can, it’s almost impossible. You have to be absolutely sure that you are being told what … if you read that thing, what an unlawful order is, it’s something like shoot the prisoner, something like that. It’s not what they’re imagining.

“And that is highly ironic because in the first term—we have Article 88, since they want to quote the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it says generals, admirals, high-ranking officers shall not disparage, demean, basically smear the commander in chief, the vice president, Cabinet people. And this applies, it says, whether they’re active or retired and subject to recall. We had, I think it was eight or nine four-star admirals who said he was a liar, he was Mussolini, he acted as if he was Hitler, he was a comparable, I think that was General [Michael] Hayden who flashed pictures of Auschwitz, said that Trump was doing the same thing on the border. I could go on.

“So, they’re not being honest. But what’s even worse is … this insurrectionary idea that Gen. [Mark] Milley, for example, because Trump is so evil, can diagnose him as unstable, then call his Chinese counterpart in the People’s Liberation Army and warn him that he will be contacted if he has any order, Milley, any order, or he can break the chain of command, which he’s not supposed to do, and interfere between theater commanders and the Department of Defense’s secretary, which he did. And he told them all to consult him first.”