even CNN had their fact-checker repeat that Shalik? was not fired, but was only serving out his four years, and had let the media know that he was almost done.
With 3 weeks to go and national survival at stake, I'm in no mood to be fair-but General Shalikashvili and many other senior officers were absolutely correct about what would be required to occupy and pacify Iraq.
That Rummy disagreed with them is not so bad, and that he insisted on his right to make the call was entirely his prerogative.
But when you engage in shouting matches in your office, and publically humiliate flag-rank officers, and insist that anyone who disagrees with you is a coward or subscribes to "old thinking" - then, you had damned well better be proven right in every little detail of what you say, or the people who work for you will never, never trust you again.
I'm in the minority, but I say we'll have a new SecDef in Term II.