Here she is.
Posted on 10/07/2004 6:40:03 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
The highest-ranking woman in U.S. Army history campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in Rock Hill on Wed-nesday, telling Democratic Party faithful that President Bush had no clue what he was getting into in Iraq.
Retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy said Bush has no clue how to get out of Iraq either.
Kennedy, a 32-year Army veteran, was the first woman to become a three-star Army general. She served as deputy chief of staff for intelligence under President Clinton. Kerry is the right person to finish the job in Iraq, she said.
Bush and Cheney have continued to say recently that the war was the right thing to do. Both Bush and Cheney say Kerry's criticism of war strategy and his votes against funding have hurt the troops.
But Kennedy and several other retired military leaders who support Kerry disagree. The military under Kerry would win the peace by building a world coalition to both fight terror and help pay for the war, Kennedy said. She called the Bush-Cheney team's wartime performance "incompetent," and said Bush looked "completely clueless" during last week's debate with Kerry.
"It is embarrassing to see George Bush pretending to be president," she told an audience of about 30 Democrats at York County Democratic headquarters.
The war was started for false reasons, Kennedy said, and some in the Bush administration have said there haven't been enough soldiers in Iraq to do the job right.
Kennedy spoke of her own three decades of service to blast both Bush and Cheney for not serving in the active-duty military. She said Kerry served as a "fine combat leader" in Vietnam.
"The price of war is way too high to go in as the first option," Kennedy said.
Kennedy has traveled the country campaigning for Kerry in an appeal to both women and veterans groups. Her local visit was another partisan event for Democrats sponsored by Women for Kerry.
Women are more likely to support Kerry than Bush, Kennedy said, but in 2000 15 million women between 18 and 24 didn't register to vote. Another 4 million who were registered didn't vote.
Clinton had a motto about building a bridge to the 21st century, Kennedy said, but "Bush has become the Hurricane Ivan to that bridge."
Yet Kerry supporter Wayne Clark pointed out that he hadn't heard much from Kerry about the tough choices he'll face in Iraq if he wins.
Kennedy said an international coalition would help Kerry win the peace.
The Muslim world, fractured politically before the Iraqi invasion, has now become more united against Bush and the U.S. as a result of the war, she said.
It is obvious that people who are already talking about an exit strategy are more concerned with getting out than crushing the enemy and winning. This former lady General (I have to imagine she was there because she was a chick and Clinton was president) is embarassed by President Bush. Good to see military that stab our own military in the back.
I heard she got her first star under GHWB.
I can read the headlines now. Kerry wins General Split Tails support.
The word 'either' means that she:
a) Has no idea how to get out of Iraq herself.
b) She knows that Kerry and the Klintonistas have no exit strategy either.
c) She has an inflated opinion of herself.
d) All of the above.
Does she smoke (or) cigars.
Just tell her to put some ice on it.
It seems to me that Kerry gets lots of support from ex-Army bureoucrats who don't like transformation and still favor the cash-cow of a massive WWII style Army. These "George McClellans" spend far too much time building show-case armies and almost no time thinking about winning battles. Of course Kerry will "get us out". He got himself out of Vietnam in only 4 months... did you know Kerry was in Vietnam?
I read that Claudia used to date a relative of Terry McAuliffes. No partisan base there.
Being the highly elevated token that she became under Billy-Jeff's administration- too bad she had to screw it up by dragging herself and another GO through a sexual harassment fiasco- which led to them both resigning.
I imagine Claudia's military analysis is about as useful as fly turds in the SOS. Still- imagine her as Kerry's SecDef....:-(
Your answer is.......... d. all of the above
The only thing Claudia Kennedy had any idea how to get out of was her panties. She got fired from the Army for sexual harassment.
She served as deputy chief of staff for intelligence under President Clinton
Enough said. But I am curious. How would this "General" explain Kerry's vote FOR the Iraq Liberation????????
Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy, the highest ranking female general in the Army and the head of Army intelligence, has complained that another general, identified today as Major General Larry G. Smith, harassed her in her office in 1996, allegedly by "inappropriately touching." Kennedy is said to have reported the alleged harrasment at the time (1996) to Smith's chain of command, but when she learned last fall that Smith was to be assigned as the new inspector general, an office in which he might have to investigate possible sexual harrassment cases, she filed a formal complaint. She did not go public with the accusation, but it was leaked and reported by the Washington Times last week. Army investigators are looking into the matter.
She got her stars while "under" someone alright!
Wow...when you use Terry McAuliffe as your dating service...geez...must have been doing her a favor. (Okay, that was mean.)
Here she is.
Right, the 3 star general who ran sensitivity training in the army. PUH_LEEZE already with Cynthia Kennedy!
I know that there was a lot of resentment at Rummy when they cleared the dead wood out of General's Row at Ft McNair a few years back.
I sure hope that pic is reversed, or I have to quit drinking coffee.
I'd like to know how many servicemen she would have inspired as commander??
Answer: ZERO
Anyone with half a brain knows appointing this woman a General in the first place was a bone thrown to Patty Schroeder, and to the RAT proponents of the "feel-good" politics of Affirmative Action.
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