Hey Odom..do us a favor and STAY retired...why don’t you go water your petunias and let a man lead this nation.
How can Lt. Gen. William Odom allows himeself to be used this way?
Thank you General. We’ve listened to your eloquent free speech and now we have digested the fact of the matter. To suggest there has been no change in approach would have been true six months back. Utilizing such an argument now rings of the familiar rhetoric of the defeatist leading the Democrat demand for surrender.
Now how a general could be foolish enough to think we’d miss that is beyond me.
Now we have a general reciting the Democrat talking points. As if a ribbon would make it so.
Odious Odom! Wonder whose shoes he polished and whose butt he kissed to achieve his rank. Butt-kissing generals. Time to completely reconfigure how the brass is promoted.
Well, in his long national security career Odom accumulated a stock of knowledge not available to laymen without security clearances. I’d wish to get on equal footing with him in that regard somehow, for otherwise arguing from un- or little- informed position is no fun.
Odom, you are a very stupid man.
Bill Odom ought to lock himself in a room with a revolver and do the decent thing.
Hey Odom:
“Citizens demand return of all pensions of retired generals who turn their former service into the service of a political agenda. We accepted their loyalty to serve the country, not the appeasement agenda of a political party.”
Why would the President sign a bill that is loaded up with billions in congressional bribes?
Too many Generals floating around this country.
He needs to team up with Murtaugh who firmly thinks he should have made it to General based on what these guys keep spinning out.
Congress authorized this war. The UN went along with it. The Congress authorized regime change, democracy for Iraq, and a tribunal to try Saddam Hussein in 1998. Did the Governor of Texas mislead the House, Senate and White House in 1998?
The accusation that President Bush allowed the war “to proceed on automatic pilot” is simply the flip side of having a President who "micromanages the war." It's darned if you do; darned if you don’t. That is a classic no-win, we will blame you whatever approach. It is clearly unfair and disingenuous.
Democrats did not campaign on a cut and run strategy. But that is what they are pursuing now with the support of General Odom. They campaigned saying that they wanted change. President Bush sought to find the best in their words. He has changed from the Casey-Abizaid strategy to the Petreus-Shinsheki-McCain strategy. It seems to be working, though it still has not been fully implemented. Responsible government requires that it be given a chance.
Muslim terrorists cannot defeat the west. But the west can surrender. That is the course chosen by the Democrats and General Odom. Notice. There is no constructive strategy advanced by ANY Democrat. It is all an irresponsible game of blame Bush. If the Democrats get their way, things will get much worse. And then they will blame Bush.
I know we want peace. But we can no more choose peace than could Prime Minister Chamberlain.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2522/
“Retired Lieutenant General William Odom was the director of the National Security Agency between 1985 and 1988. Currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University, Odom has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s foreign policy.”
Yale University... Today’s bastion of Conservative and American ideals and philosophies. We all know how Conservative Yale University Professors are. I am certain that this Lt. General has no political slant to his writings at all! Yale is even more Conservative than Bob Jones University.
LLS
She didn’t have time to meet with the current General in charge of the war she wants to run, but she had time to talk a retired old man into selling out the country.
All the way back to George Bush I, this old retired fool has been WRONG about anything that anyone asked him to give his opinion or prediction about. It’s just amazing that anybody would still be asking him what he thought about anything unless it is so they can put money on the exact opposite being the certain outcome.
"Other Retired Gen.: Bush Should NOT Sign Iraq Bill"
There are always two sides to every story.
My guess is that thethe majority of reired generals are asking Mr. Bush not to sign the bill.
Besides, Being retired and out of theater leaves you without a lot of facts which would prevent you from making a viable decision on this matter.