Probably promoted by Clinton in one of his affirmative action binges.
Ya mean like Oregon's own: "Chief Moose", the anti-white guy in charge of the "white van, white man" sniper fiasco.
General Officers are recommended for promotion by a board of peers and superiors in the Pentagon. They are confirmed by the U.S. Senate. 3 years into the Bush administration, wearing her first star, I doubt that she was recommended by a Clinton-era board.
OTOH, I won't dispute that some female GOs are still being promoted who shouldn't be. BG Karpinski is just one shining example of that problem.
This woman is incompetent. She was interviewed some months ago on Sixty Minutes or a similar show about the prisoners in her jail who had been there for months but had not had their paper work processed. In most cases, paperwork didn't even exist for these prisoners. She wasn't even able to tell the interviewer whether or not a particular person was in the prison. (Some were prominent professionals who had previously been victims of Saddam's brutality.) Apparently innocent Iraqis had just been picked up off the streets with no specific charges against them and were held for months. Family members trying to find out what happened to them were callously turned away. She appeared not to care or to even to pretend she was on top of her job. I can understand refusing to reveal details when people are major prisoners and terrorists, but this woman was clueless about even the basics of how prisoners were being detained and processed. She should be given a dishonorable discharge and court martialed for gross incompetence.