[Swiss]

I would love to see these candy ass generals deal with Lincoln's Sec. of War Edwin Stanton.

From what I read Stanton could arrest anyone without reason and did including military officers.

When pressure was exerted to remove the unpopular secretary from office, Lincoln replied, "If you will find another secretary of war like him, I will gladly appoint him."

[HawaiianGecko]

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I've noticed this list in the New York times of the top 10 most emailed articles doesn't include anything about Secretary Rumsfeld and the rampaging X-Generals. Guess it's not really an important item among readers of this newspaper.

 

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Every one of these Generals is a low life, spineless piece of vermin. Not one of them had the "you know what" to speak their mind when they wore the uniform of the US Military. They all whimped out and waited until they retired. Rumsfeld rained on their cute little tight parade of they way they ran the military, and the bastards did not like it. So, now comes the long knives for Rumsfeld. Well, weak sisters, it won't work!! Rumsfeld has more brains in his behand than any of these misfits and losers!!! They should be charged with Treason, tried, and treated acccordingly (Especially that moron Zinni). They could all become Democrats, then they would be traitors and America haters too. When will the American people wake up destroy these malcontents and haters of America!!!!

[SuziQ]

He was blamed for committing too few U.S. troops

Weren't he and the President taking the Generals' lead on how many troops would be committed? I seem to remember the call srom many in the media for more troops a couple of years ago, and the Generals on the ground in Iraq said that they didn't NEED any more troops. So what's the deal here?

Is this just some personal thing with these Generals?

[HawaiianGecko]

I may be wrong, but I don't recall a single Admiral complaining about the Secretary or for that matter an Air Force General. Seems like the whiners are from the Army and Marines and unless I'm mistaken again, isn't the Secretary's reorganization building upon the Air Force and Navy assets and decreasing the importance of the boots on the ground services? 

BTW for any grunts sharpening their flame sticks, I'm not denigrating either the Army or Corps.

 

[Grut]

For all you folks who missed the point, the Iraq war isn't the GWOT, it's what's replaced the GWOT. It's as though, after D-Day, we stopped the war until we got France straightened out.

The Bush administration has fallen into the classic error of letting the alligators distract them from draining the swamp. I expect we'll eventually succeed in Iraq but it won't matter because the focus of the war will have been lost.

[tobyhill]

Drive by media and now drive by Retired Generals. What's on the menu for next week?

[JasonC]

The most pathetic angle the commies have tried yet.

Next they will claim that Bush's dog doesn't support the war in Iraq.

[Two-Bits]

As a proud Mom of a son in the Navy, I thank God for Donald H. Rumsfeld. I could not have picked a better Secretary of Defense. My dream would be for a Presidential ticket of Cheney & Rumsfeld.....From my lips to God's ears....

[El Gato]

It would be very interesting to see where these Generals now work.

Rummy is particularly unpopular in the Army for canceling two of their most favored systems, the Crusader mobile artillery, and the Comanche helicopter.

There are also many in the Army, well below general's rank, who feel Rummy is trying to do "defense on the cheap". Can't say that I don't agree with them to a certain extent.

[righttackle44]

When cowardly Iraqi foreign fighters and insurgents ambush our guys, they are designated "the enemy."

Naturally, (and I like Rush Limbaugh's designation of the MSM as the "Drive-By Media"), the Drive-By Media is glorifying the enemy.

[piasa]

But it is surprising, especially because it's a time of war, said P.J. Crowley, a retired Air Force colonel who served as a Pentagon spokesman in both Republican and Democratic administrations and was a national security aide to former President Clinton.
“This is a very significant vote of no confidence and I think the president has to take this into account. The military is saying it does not trust its civilian leadership,” said Crowley, now a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress.

The Center for American Progress...

Robert Dreyfuss reports in the March 1, 2004 edition of The Nation: “The idea for the Center began with discussions in 2002 between [Morton] Halperin and George Soros, the billionaire investor. … Halperin, who heads the office of Soros’ Open Society Institute, brought [former Clinton chief of staff John] Podesta into the discussion, and beginning in late 2002 Halperin and Podesta circulated a series of papers to funders.” -----Robert Dreyfuss, “An Idea Factory for the Democrats,”  The Nation, March 1, 2004, 18
Soros and Halperin then recruited Harold Ickes – chief fundraiser and former deputy chief of staff for the Clinton White House – to help organize the Center. It was launched on July 7, 2003 as the American Majority Institute, but has operated under the name Center for American Progress (CAP) since September 1, 2003.

* CAP : I'm reading Madam Hillary which is a more interesting book than I thought it would be. Page 28 mentions that Hillary has organized and gotten funding (with the help of Soros and others) for several think tanks including the Center for American Progress. The Center has a 501(c)4 designation which permits the propoganda section to be more aggressively partisan.
Sara Wartell, a veteran of the Clinton administration, is the Center's chief operating officer. The Center focuses on hot button issues in Washington with an eye to influencing Congress, the public and the media through a sophisticated rapid response media campaign.
The rapid response media campaign is run by Debbie Berger, the daughter of Sandy Berger! ----82 posted on 08/11/2004 3:46:40 PM PDT by Peach

While his boss was being interviewed by the Sept 11 commission, Sandy Berger stole classified documents from the National Archives by smuggling them in his pants and socks, even deliberately destroyed some of them once he managed to get them to his office. He may also have substituted documents, we may never know.

MARCH 2004 : (THE NOTES OF A PENTAGON AIDE NAMED ERIC - MENTIONING RICHARD CLARKE AND CONTAINING DIRECTIONS TO SECDEF DONALD RUMSFELD'S HOUSE ARE LEFT A STARBUCKS - ARE FOUND AT A COFFEE SHOP AND ARE GIVEN TO THE LIBERAL "CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS," WHICH PUBLISHES THEM INSTEAD OF IMMEDIATELY RETURNING THEM TO WHERE THEY BELONG) ------ "Found at Starbucks: The Pentagon's Papers," American Progress [lefty org], March 31, 2004 unsigned

One of CAP's babies is Media Matters, the group that has been trying to remove Rush Limbaugh from Armed Forces radio.

[wmileo]

This is just sour grapes from former military folks who could not brown nose there way around Rumsfeld. He is too smart for that. All of these folks are suffering from the "Wesley Clark Syndrome". Clark started out to praise Bush until it was clear his brown nose routine would not get him a position in the Bush Administration. Then he became a DEM and trashed the War. Clark is a useless scumbag.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

By the way, folks, this writer Tom Raum is a Democrat left-wing POS traitor!!!