Posted on 09/25/2006 6:38:12 PM PDT by John Carey
Three retired U.S. Army Officers address a congressional committee on the war in Iraq in starkly harsh words Monday.
“I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq,” retired Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste told a forum conducted by Senate Democrats.
A second military leader, also a retired two-star general, Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, assessed Rumsfeld as “incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically.”
A third officer, retired Col. Paul X. Hammes, joined Batiste and Eaton in testimony before the Democratic Policy Committee of the U.S. Senate. The unusual location was chosen, Democrats said, because the Republican leadership in the Senate has not permitted thorough oversight of the war in Iraq from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said majority Republicans had failed to conduct hearings on the issue, adding, “if they won’t … we will.”
All three officers who testified served in Iraq, and Batiste also was senior military assistant to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Batiste, who commanded the Army’s 1st Infantry Division in Iraq, also blamed Congress for failing to ask “the tough questions.”
He said Rumsfeld at one point threatened to fire the next person who mentioned the need for a postwar plan in Iraq.
“Mr. Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we will see two more years of extraordinarily bad decision-making,” General Eaton said.
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Current Generals tell Congress retired Generals must go!
This group of scumbags has already been discredited.
Old news.
I don't have a blog, so I am not that in tune with the etiquette, but I thought I heard someone once say that it is considered to be in bad taste to do it.
Is this what someone in this thread referred to as "blog pimping"?
I'll grant you this Churchy --- you engage and try to defend your postions.
This poster not only excerpts his own blog, but also serial posts articles that we would expect democrats to post and he rarely, if ever, replies.
It would be nice to recall their sorry arses back to active duty, give them order they will refuse then Courts Martial them, strip all pay and benefits and give them dishonorable discharges.
FR is huge --- and we attract disruptors too, but they are eventually outed and banned.
Keep the faith!
I wonder what positions in a possible Dem administration these three arm chair Generals are after?
My first thoughts exactly. A convenient little story to take some attention away from the Angry ex-President.
John Carey, aren't you the one who claimed to know Richard Armitage as a friend a week or so ago?
Right.
"FR is huge --- and we attract disruptors too, but they are eventually outed and banned."
IBTZ
oops, thought you were bonyx2.... sorry
;)
Hey! Good to see you bonyx!
Hey, pimp my blog, onyx!
-- bonyx
You have a blog? Who knew?
This is just some hack Democratic Party committee -- not an official Congressional committee. It has no relevance other than as campaign propaganda.
My point of issue there (and in some other threads) is that the media is a battleground as well. We ignore it at our own peril, and that in a time of war, free speech does have responsibilities and limitations.
The NYT has consistently shown they cannot be trusted with sensitive information, and the fact that their sources are hidden should not exempt them from those responsibilities.
Not everyone agrees, however.
Or it could be in the ..................
drum roll please........................
blog category instead of news..........
That's how accountability is handled, my friend.
More than likely they were anti-war hacks at the Pentagon during the Clinton Administration.
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