(Another)Retired US Iraq general demands Rumsfeld resign

Batiste said he was struck by the "lack of sacrifice and commitment on the part of the American people" to the war, with the exception of families with soldiers fighting in Iraq. "I think that our executive and legislative branches of government have a responsibility to mobilize this country for war. They frankly have not done so.

I think the good general can thanks the dems for this.

of course I thank him for his time in Iraq but I gotta wonder if he's a bit bent that he didn't get his 3rd star....

They offered him his 3rd star if he'd return to Iraq but he refused because he didn't want to work with Rumsfeld anymore.

Nah, You are wrong on SecDef Rumsfeld. He has been a tremendous asset to this Nation during this WOT. Absolutely the best kind of SecDef we could have wished for. We should be thankful.

Those in the Armed forces by a large margin absolutely agree and support SecDef Rumsfeld. That is the reality. There is a small group of old Mil dinosaurs and old Big Green types who don't like the man because he is adjusting the military to be more effective (and they don't like change).

Within this segment of anti-Rumsfeld types are also a bunch of candyass$s who constantly like to come up with excuses for why this or that can't get accomplished....but on the other hand constantly demand the lions share of every budget.

SecDef Rumsfeld has done more for our actual warriors and shooters then any SecDef in the last 50 years. He continues to demand ways for our shooters to be less dependent and more autonomous in thier actions (shortening that cruical OODA loop in the process) by finding ways of cutting out the constant need of CIA spooks or OGAs.

Furthermore these ex-Gen's going out and talking to the MSM shows much more about themselves...then anything about our SecDef.

Your reply never addressed any of the specifics points I made. The Navy might as well still be under Dick Danzig. The Army is still holding to the quota's and the reduced standards. Has a single social change been reversed? I served in the military when Reagan took over and rolled back all of the Carter era social changes, as well as implementing a few of his own; the "We Ask, Don't Join" policy for example.

Don was and did all of the things I wrote about, correct? The average white female is still not making it through her first army enlistment, right? We are still setting records for out-of-wedlock births amongst are enlisted females..and we are still subsidizing it...right?

Those in the Armed forces by a large margin absolutely agree and support SecDef Rumsfeld. That is the reality. There is a small group of old Mil dinosaurs and old Big Green types who don't like the man because he is adjusting the military to be more effective (and they don't like change).

And many of them owe their own career advancements to one of their own who made it up there to four stars and the political position of Secretary of State.

Zinni, Swannack, Riggs, Batiste, Newbold and Eaton. Who or what is the one thing they all have in common.

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