Posted on 04/13/2006 10:03:19 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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M. O'BRIEN: And then he(Batiste) went on to say he thinks Secretary Rumsfeld should step down. What do you say to that?
DELONG: ... Dealing with Secretary Rumsfeld is like dealing with a CEO. When you walk in to him, you've got to be prepared. You've got to (know) what you're talking about. If you don't, you're summarily dismissed, but that's the way it is, and he's effective.
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M. O'BRIEN: General, to sum it up. If I had to sum up the criticism it seems to me what people are saying is there's an arrogance and almost a cavalier nature of the way this war has -- was thought out initially. And as a result what that really did was, more than anything else, put not enough troops on the ground. Would you go along with that?
DELONG: No, I disagree. If we could have gotten more troops on the ground, we would have, but we couldn't come through Turkey. We had one small hole to get through. That was up through Kuwait. And we got as many troops on the ground as fast as we could.
M. O'BRIEN: Final thought, is Secretary Rumsfeld arrogant?
DELONG: I don't know if I'd use the word "arrogant." He's very sure of himself. And if you're not sure of himself, I guess you may consider him arrogant. But if you walk and know what you're talking about, you can have a very pleasant, professional conversation with the man.
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The MSM does not recognize what it takes/means to be a leader at DOD level. After all, most of these MSM types think being a strong leader means crying on camera and getting a hairdo.
The type of mostly "under the radar" losses that the nation suffers when a Dem is elected President. A Dem President gets in office and some of those Generals can't help themselves. And they start going to cocktail parties and expressing liberal political thoughts, then some Dem at the party spreads the word around, and the next thing you know, the General gets a plum position and/or gets promoted. Then the General retires and needs to keep up the image so he gets the right retirement jobs with the political network he is now connected to. So, he writes an anti-Repubican article and sits back and waits for an even better retirement job, especially if another Dem is elected President. Of course he sells out the troops when he does it, but he rationalizes to himself and others by claiming he is looking out for the troops. But of course he stopped looking out for the troops the day he went political.
God bless and long live Secretary Rumsfeld!
Anthony Zinni was the Commandant of the Suck either right as i was getting out , or right after, not a Soilder as the article claims. Lots of research involved.
Rummy - Rush in '08. My dream ticket!.
Or maybe it was the 1st Mar Div. the fog of time has clouded my mind.......
Zinni was never the Commandant. He was the CENTCOM Commander while I was in Somalia, and we all know how that goat rope turned out!
O.K here it is "From 1987 to 1989, Zinni served on Okinawa as the Regimental Commander of the 9th Marines " Knew i had served under him somewhere, but couldnt remember where. G 2/9 wpns plt.
see 28.
You mean like Bill Clinton did with the Justice Department???
You need to adjust your meds. Zinni retired on his own in August of 2000 after 35 years on active duty. He wasn't canned.
You are mistaken, Zinni was never Commandant.
Zinni was Clinton's lap pet.
CNN must be excerpted.
Hardly. Zinni told Clinton that Desert Fox, aka Wag the Dog, was unlikely to kill Bin Laden.
When were you in Somalia?
You bet, I served around a bunch of "clinton generals", they were some of the worst. Merrill McPeak was in the running for top POS.
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