BREAKING Top Army General Drops Bombshell about ISIS as He is about to Retire

SPC (Join to see) I like GEN Odierno and I like the fact that he is speaking out. He made it to that job for reason. All of us "Arm Chair quarterbacks" can second-guess what he is saying, but he had access to the intelligence and the facts. He is assessing the situation and letting the Commander in Chief know as he is going out the door he doesn't agree with the direction the military is going in with the current level of threats. Remember, when the USSR was at the top of their game and looking down the barrel of the Fulda Gap Reagan built are defense posture up to over (21) Divisions (I believe that is correct - historians correct me if I'm wrong), but I'm pretty close to the number - it was a formable force to deter USSR further aggression and keep everyone in checkmate. Now we are decreasing our military when the threats are all around us whether we want to admit it or not. I like the fact that he took the high road, finished his career and is now standing up and sending a message to this country, Congress and the current leadership as well as the future leadership that will inherit the 450K Army. Good for him!

He is not resigning but retiring so the headline is misleading to begin with. It makes it sound like he is being forced out due to disagreeing with the President. However, I will say that it is interesting that he is still in uniform when he is making these comments. Too many people get out and write a book after the fact when they no longer have any influence and I wonder why they did not have the moral courage to make a stand when they could. This raises an issue that I have thought about quite a bit. When you disagree with policy so strongly, should you resign to make a statement or stay in to either try to change the policy or just ride with the waves?

The whole military command structure should have told this POS where to get off years ago. Mutiny, yes. Insubordination, you bet. Who cares? One of Obama's singular agendas has been to embolden the Arabs in whatever form they come, and to demoralize and destabilize our military. Am I the only one who has seen this? No. General Odierno, General McChrystal, and many others have had it up to their Dress Blues bow tie with this sanctimonious fraud of a president. So have I.

That is a misleading headline. The headline makes it sound like he's resigning because of the ISIS issue, which isn't the case (he'll be retiring). The article also intermingles his words with the writer's commentary, as if the General said all of those things.

Bottom line, it's never too late to give an opinion.

Well firstly he's still in uniform, so he has plenty to lose. Secondly, he's just voicing his opinion. In this case, it's not one that I believe will get him disciplined. He's saying, "I said this back when, and it wasn't taken to heart", not 'POTUS is an idiot.'

Quick point -- he is not resigning. He is retiring, which was expected and not a surprise. SPC (Join to see) will you please update your post's title here to make it more accurate, and less misleading? Thanks in advance.

Frustrating... The last time I went to Iraq... and stayed for 15 months... General O was the Corps (MNCI) Commander. When we left (Nov 07), if felt like we had really made a difference during the Surge, and things were looking bright. We blew that. Like Germany, Japan, and Korea, we need to stay until the job is done. All the arbitrary dates and timelines politicians set are killing us. If we are going, we need to stay until the mission is complete. I still remember Bill Clinton saying we would be out of Bosnia in 6 months...

I think he is opening up now because he's near the end of his career. It's most unfortunate that the Army Chief of Staff had to waffle when asked if he voiced his opinion directly to the President. The bottom line, apparently, is that he did NOT voice that opinion directly because he didn't have the opportunity. I do not envy our senior military leaders. They are put in a position of having to walk a fine line between reality and political reality, and that's unfortunate.

I say God bless and thank you to GEN Odierno. Wow, 39 years of service. We owe him a debt of gratitude.

Reporters or media groups which are a civilian organizations do not know the difference between resigning and retiring. Maybe it makes for a better title to make people think POTUS fired his top general because he disagreed.