Posted on 07/27/2004 4:54:00 PM PDT by toaster
In 1947 the then Columbia University quaterback Gene Rossides led Columbia to a stunning football victory that ended national power Army's 32-game unbeaten streak. Now more than 55 years later, Rossides is still taking on elements of America's Defense Complex. Rossides charges that the United States, on the misleading advice of certain elements within the Defense Department, is playing cozy with a brutal regime in Turkey.
In a recent Op-ed column for Hellenic News of America, Rossides, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary, calls for the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. Rossides charges that "Wolfowitz has committed major mistakes of policy and judgment regarding Turkey to the serious detriment of U.S. interests. Wolfowitz's remarks on Turkey have contained false and misleading statements with serious errors of fact and omission of Orwellian proportions."
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Gene Rossides < WHO?? >
A has been football player - so?
a menial to someone else at sometime - I read the tale, and I still don't know who this character is - it is written like a dime novel for a actor ??
is he, by chance, a democrat also?
Who in hell is Gene Rossides? Why should we listen to him?
Is this the new Dem mantra? I've seen it everywhere today in their releases.
Interesting. A couple of Jews (at least Wolfowitz is) should be fired for continuing American policy of at least 50 years towards an ally.
The Turkish regime is, for all its many faults, probably the most civilized and democratic of any Muslim country.
Dredging up a 1938(!) quote about a long-dead founding father, especially one intended to make him sound like a Nazi, is especially egregious.
Phew! We'd better listen and listen good!
Wow, a former assistant treasury secretary called for it? I guess we have to listen to what he says then!!!
Does his name look Greek in origin? If so, he has definite problems with Turkey and that would color his opinion of cooperating with that country.
How dare you! You've got some nerve!
Former Assistant Treasury Secretaries are all-knowing. Especially about the Department of Defense.
Is Wolfowitz still there? Didn't he get canned after not knowing how many troops were killed in Iraq? Then again, probably not, what's another screwup.
Not to get into the middle of the eternal Greco-Turkish wars, but if you apply the same standards he uses for Turkey to Greece, it also is a terrorist state, at least historically.
Neither side had very clean hands in either the 19 or 20th centuries, and a good many before that.
Democrats--hating Jews and redistributing income for decades!
Rossides is the one guilty of dual loyalty.
Rossides was with Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as Undersecretary for Enforcement around the time of Watergate. Regarding his firearms expertise, Gordon Liddy said Rossides didn't know which end of the tube the round came out of.
Wolfowitz needs to get over the Cold war mentality and our relationship with Turkey needs reformulation.
What are you babbling about? Greece - a terrorist nation? Get your facts straight!
Leftists demonize Wolfowitz because his name begins with a big scary animal and ends Jewishly.~~Mark Steyn
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