[Gothmog]

"In a special session prior to his speech, Franks fielded questions from the media and the public."

Intreresting that the two questions the Daily News thought newsworthy of mentioning suggested Kerry's war experience was more valuable than Bush's and that the liberation of Iraq was driven by a greedy need for oil.

Anyone want to bet those came from the press and not the public?

[squidly]

Don't let that slow Texas drawl fool you. Gen. Franks is a brilliant man.

[FairOpinion]

Good article.

I am glad Gen. Franks is speaking out.

[Viking2002]

You're DAMNED RIGHT I'll remember it in November. I'll remember the man in who was in the Big Chair when it happened, and how he responded. And you can be DAMNED SURE I'll remember The National Socialist Appeasement Party, what they stand for, and how they've not only dishonored the dead, but also used another 280 million American lives as political poker chips to try to regain power.

[PGalt]

Hooray for Tommy Franks! Thanks for the post.

[Clintonfatigued]

I can only hope that Americans remember the Twin Towers when they go to the polls. Bill Clinton was never serious about protecting national security. His decimation of intelligence agencies and his politically correct immigration policies might have contributed to the the attack's success. America doesn't need another president who will repeat Clinton's policies.

[JLS]

Like all representative governments, the US people have fallen into an isolationist slumber from time to time. That is natural as free people generally just want to be left alone to progress in life.

But the salvation of the US in the past has been when attacked the US population has responded and has been willing to pay the price to keep our freedom ala WWII. This is another test and I am pretty shocked at the number of people particularly in the NYC metro area who view the attack on the US as old news.

Some of it may be Bush's fault for not treating this war as the multi-front war it is and being dumb enough to ask anyone's permission even the US Congress who had already given permission to fight the war to extend it to Iraq.

And much of it is the press' fault for failing to report accurately on the war and a failure to report stories like this one widely. It makes one wonder if a segment of the press hopes that the US stays vulnerable or maybe even falls.

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[Fun Bob]

A vote for Kerry is a vote for Osama bin Laden

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal

[bobo1]

OMYGOSH! I thought the military was supporting Hanoi John!

Maybe a debate is in order between "The Man" Tommy Franks and the "The Weasel" Wesley Clark.

Tommy could explain military strategy and Wesley could explain why weasels have a brown noses.

blessings, Bobo

[SandRat]

Good words to remember and heed.

[Monty22]

The masses will elect Kerry and we'll be done for. Unless somehow we're saved.

I doubt it highly though.

[texasflower]

Franks, who now lives in Tampa and received three Purple Hearts..

I have no trouble believing that these Purple Hearts were EARNED.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Franks is a great guy. As the Army pressed more and more conventional units into Afghanistan in 2002, things bogged down more and more in peacetime bureaucracy. He showed his appreciation for what we were doing and shared our disdain for the rear-echelon bureaucrats that were trying to turn Bagram into Bragg East by posing with two of our guys for a photo in front of one of the 18th Corps CSM's beloved "fleece jackets will not be worn as an outer garment" sign. (Of course, only the REMFs had desert pattern gore-tex outergarments, so the real meaning was, "combat troops, freeze, you chumps").

Naturally Franks and the two guys are wearing the black fleece jacket, pointing at the sign, and grinning. Any general who has enough of a sense of humour to do that, deserves a standing O everywhere life takes him.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[CWOJackson]

Former "active duty" general, he will remain a general the rest of his life.

[prognostigaator]

bttt

[JLAGRAYFOX]

A vote for John Kerry and the Democrat Party is a vote for Osama Bil Laden and his terrorist follwers. Bin Laden prays faithfully every day for a Kerry victory! What that happens, it is open season on killing innocent Americans, women and children included. Wake up, America, the handwriting of terror is on the wall!