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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin-bottom:16.8pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>>…When Journalists do this kinda thing, they better have a really tall pile of evidence.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:16.8pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>>…John, which do you believe it will be?"</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:16.8pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>…I strongly suspect that due to Trump's well known instability towards the end, and due to Biden being in the White House, that the general will get away with what he did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:16.8pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>John, if this story is true and Milley even utters the word “Trump” at his court martial, he will be found guilty. There is no legal path where a general can decide the civilian command is crazy and go around it. Otherwise any general could go around any civilian commander in chief with the same argument. Then the top general becomes the defacto head of the military. That isn’t legal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:16.8pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I suspect the story was planted, but Gen. Milley better hope so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:16.8pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>