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To: Laverne
You are right. The current SecDef has stepped on a lot of toes with the changes he is making in military branches. Most of these generals have grudges against the people who are making the changes and Rummy is their number one target. Also none of these generals really had a hand in the planning of the war. I for one am getting tired of their back stabbing.
49 posted on 04/13/2006 6:00:41 PM PDT by Bombard
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To: Bombard
Also none of these generals really had a hand in the planning of the war. I for one am getting tired of their back stabbing.

Ahh. So that's what the story meant about Rummy scrapping the plans they'd had 'in the drawer' for 10 years. I'm sure Rummy and Gen. Franks realized that any plans that old were not appropriate for the kind of war we'd be facing in Afghanistan and Iraq. The very real possibility of suicide bombers and IEDs made the prosecution of this war like nothing our military had faced before. There had always been isolated attacks on military units and installations before, but nothing quite so organized. And it was clear from the beginning that the attacks, after the initial war, were being coordinated using fighters from outside the country; it was NOT a classic insurgency.

These whining generals seemed desirous of fighting the LAST war, not the next one, and got their knickers in a twist when plans didn't go their way.

72 posted on 04/13/2006 8:38:31 PM PDT by SuziQ
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