'We hear you. Accountability must come,' the Republican congressman tweeted Friday, after Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller said he was relieved from duty.
In the video, he said he wanted demand accountability from senior military leaders over the handling of the situation in Afghanistan.
"I'm not making this video because it's potentially an emotional time. I'm making it because I have a growing discontent and contempt for my perceived ineptitude at the foreign policy level, and I want to specifically ask some questions to some of my senior leaders," he said. On Friday, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz said he believed a Marine who was relieved of duty after criticizing the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan would make a better defense secretary than Lloyd Austin. Below, Gaetz speaks as Rep. Louie Gohmert listens during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on July 29, in Washington, DC."People are upset because their senior leaders let them down.
"We have a secretary of defense that testified to Congress in May that the Afghan national security force could withstand the advance. We have chairmans [sic] of joint chiefs who—the commandant is a member of that—who're supposed to advise on military policy. We have a Marine combatant commander. All of these people are supposed to advise," he said.had been"relieved for cause based on a lack of trust and confidence."Read more
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