Posted on 12/02/2004 3:08:16 PM PST by RWR8189
RICK RESCORLA Petition
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978534/posts?page=7#7
Bremer made some bad comments that may have hurt Bush a little, right before the election.
Damn fool should have kept his mouth shut.
Presidential Medal of Freedom
On his last morning in office, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom to twenty individuals, including Bob Hope. Bob Hope's citation noted that, "With his gifts of joy to all the American people, he has written his name large in the history of our times."
You basically captured my thoughts. Well said.
Excuse me, but what has Tommy Franks done since leaving the service to deserve a Medal of Freedom? If it is for something he did while in service, that should have been covered by his Army medals (three Defense Distinguished Service Medals, two Distinguished Service Medals, and four Legion of Merit awards among others). The Medal of Freedom is for civilian service.
He graduated from Midland Lee High School the same as the First Lady did? (Ha Ha Ha)
:o}
Not only did they go to the same school, did you know that according to Bush himself Franks actually dated her several times?
I really liked George Tenet and paid pretty close attention to the news when he spoke.
Just how is it he "all but blamed Condi for 9/11"?
Yeah .. I like the Franks and Bremmer choices, but Tenant? I don't get that one.
HOWEVER, he's a Democrat who doesn't understand business management. When your profit margin (in this case intelligence gems) is tanking you DO NOT get rid of the BEST people and keep the bureaucrat SUCKUPS. THEY'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
I'm not a big supporter of his, but neither am I one of his detractors. He deserves recognition for his long, uphill battle to keep his agency viable.
My thoughts exactly. Tenet should be given a "booby" prize instead.
What about Nobel Peace Prize ?
I doubt that very much. When we withdrew from Fallujah in the spring, we left a Baathist General in charge of mostly former Iraqi soldiers. That didn't exactly work out too well, did it? They simply handed everything over to the terrorists. Bremer was correct to disband the Iraqi Army. Imagine if the US had put the Wehrmacht in charge of 1946 Germany -- or perhaps a better analogy would have been putting the Waffen SS in charge.
Of course, the Joint Chiefs' plan was just their way of doing nothing by presenting the President with a ridiculous option. Classic bureaucratic inertia.
These three should get the Distinguished Medal of Boredom.
scratch other two....replace with:
2) Todd Beamer
3) Pat Tillman
But that is EXACTLY what Lord Mountbatten did in Indonesia with the Japanese troops that had surrendered. He re-armed them and British, Indian, and Imperial Japanese soldiers fought together to maintain order until enough the Japanese could be repatriated and enough British troops could arrive.
Between September 1945 and November 1946, up to 35,000 surrendered Japanese troops were assimilated into Lord Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command in the Netherlands East Indies. Although under the ultimate control of British officers, the Japanese retained their wartime unit structures, were led by their own officers and remained armed. The Japanese fought alongside the British despite the anger felt against them as the perpetrators of wartime atrocities and as a former enemy.
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