[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 156 (Friday, September 10, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E962-E963]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IMPEACHING GENERAL MILLEY AND SECRETARY AUSTIN

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                           HON. PAUL A. GOSAR

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 10, 2021

  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to address the serious and 
deadly incompetence displayed by Mr. Biden and his current military 
staff, including General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin. The 
military leadership has been irresponsible, careless, and incompetent 
regarding Afghanistan. After 20 years, over $2 trillion wasted, and 
thousands of American lives lost, our military leadership lost this war 
and did so in a humiliating defeat played out in real time before the 
world.
  Our enemies are emboldened as our military leaders showed cowardice 
and incompetence. Instead of resolve and a plan of action to exit a war 
they could not justify or win, they evacuated our troops and abandoned 
civilians. They abandoned our allies and left

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them to fend for themselves. The British were so incensed over this 
humiliating defeat and abandonment of their servicemembers on the field 
that the British Parliament passed a resolution censuring Mr. Biden, a 
first in our nation's history.
  Our allies lost faith in their ability to count on us.
  In addition, our military leaders, led by the strange General Milley, 
who is obsessed with homosexuality in the military and flying gay pride 
flags at every opportunity, informed Congress that we did not need to 
keep Bagram Air Base before the civilians were evacuated. His bungling 
led to a disaster with 13 of our servicemembers unnecessarily killed 
trying to control an airport that we had no control over and had many 
weak points compared to Bagram Air Base. His decision cost the lives of 
his troops.
  On top of this disastrous incompetence, General Milley and Secretary 
Austin abandoned over $80 billion in our top-notch military equipment 
and allowed it to fall into the hands of the very military we had been 
opposing. Milley and Austin failed to create a plan to retrieve, 
scuttle or destroy our valuable equipment. Helicopters, airplanes, 
drones, missiles, automatic weapons, MRAPS, Humvees, ammunition, 
mortars and howitzers were all lost to the enemy even though our 
leaders knew where the equipment was yet did nothing to stop the 
acquisition by the Taliban.
  This is gross incompetence and dereliction of duty. Both the very 
weirdly obsessed General Milley and Secretary Austin should have 
resigned in shame for the humiliation they brought to this country. But 
they have not. Therefore, we need to remove them. I will vote to 
impeach both Milley and Austin and remove the stain they have left on 
our military and our people.
  I include in the Record a letter from Arizona Representative Walt 
Blackman. His letter needs to be read and shared and I join him in his 
conclusions.

                                                 September 3, 2021
       To Whom It May Concern: I proudly served 21 years in the 
     United States Army. Several times during my service I was on 
     deployment to other countries. I was responsible for military 
     equipment valued at millions of dollars.
       I was trained as a private whose job was imperative to 
     track, secure and dispose of military equipment in accordance 
     with military regulation. While I was stationed at Fort Hood 
     there was a time when our military installation was on 
     complete lockdown because a soldier had misplaced a set of 
     night vision goggles. Securing and tracking military 
     equipment, especially sensitive items is a practice that is 
     constantly drilled into all soldiers.
       According to UCMJ any servicemember of the United States 
     Armed Forces who either willfully or by neglect sells, 
     damages, destroys, disposes of, or otherwise mismanages U.S. 
     military property may face charges under Article 108 of the 
     UCMJ.
       The Commander in Chief Joe Biden and the Secretary of 
     Defense Lloyd Austin have placed America as well as multiple 
     other countries in a vulnerable situation by not properly 
     handling military property. This has allowed very sensitive 
     military equipment owned by the United States of America to 
     fall into the hands of terroristic enemies. The Commander in 
     Chief Joe Biden as well as the Secretary of Defense Lloyd 
     Austin should be held accountable and in the same manner of 
     the law as any other soldier would under Article 108 of the 
     UCMJ.
       I am requesting you impeach Joe Biden and court-martial the 
     Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Mark Milley 
     under Article 108 of the UCMJ.
           Respectfully,
                                                  Walter Blackman,
       Chairman, Criminal Justice Reform 
     Judiciary
       Public Safety and Military Affairs
       Commissioner; Education Commission of the States Member, 
     Legislative District 6
       Phoenix, Arizona.

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