Ah, General Tommy Franks. Can’t fault him. He went to H.S. with Laura Bush at Robert E. Lee High School in Midland Texas. (As a side note, when the lee H.S. Band marched in Bush’s inaugural Parade in D.C., they were told to leave their Confederate Battle Flags at home).
I have no problems with General Franks. I think he is a wonderful commander and I was sorry to see him go. Unfortunately, he was saddled with a bunch of paper-pushers (a large portion of them Clinton holdbacks) back in Washington who kept looking over his shoulder and giving him idiotic instructions. If he’d been given free-reign, I have little doubt that General Franks would have taken care of Sadr and his nutcases before they became a major problem. And the crazy decision to totally disband the old Iraqi military that drove many of its members into the insurgent camp was not his idea, but he had to deal with the consequences.
when the band arrived in DC,they were waving the flags. they were ordered NOT to march with the CSA flags, however.
free dixie,sw