Posted on 04/14/2006 5:09:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Nice that the bbc sticks it's nose into things it can't understand.
This just the next sequence of the Bush Bashing that the left adopted in December 2000. Retired Generals, the Plame Game, Body Armor, tax cuts for the rich, Katrina, Cindy Sheehan...........
Yes. Thats right. Exactly.
They get to wear the suits and ties, and you get to carry out their "agenda", also known as "national policy".
And one can now see why these cry baby idiots are shooting off their dumb, stupid mouths. The Army ones never got promoted so they are mad at the Sec of Defense. They should resign their commissions and give back their retired pay ASAP. They are proved to be anti-American scum. Thank goodness I never had to serve with these idiots during my 25 years.
Donald Rumsfeld is a target of the MSM because he tells them when their questions are stupid.
And most just ho hum at these pathetic english majors undergrads. The only ones who read this trash is us, and the prof who kudos it. My ug papers could run circles around this crap.
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From Powerline:
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Dafydd ab Hugh has an excellent post about the retired generals who have lambasted Defense Secretary Rumsfeld recently. Dafydd notes that the generals in question are (1) mostly, in effect, Clinton appointees and (2) "old school" generals who object to Rumsfeld's pet theories of pushing towards smaller units, more unit independence, much greater reliance on Special Forces, and a reorganization of units to be self-sufficient rather than specialized. As to the second point, Dafydd compares the griping generals to "vice presidents at General Motors or IBM who furiously denounce splitting those companies into self-reliant business units instead of the normal corporate divisions they've had for twenty years." He also notes that "the fact that an old general dislikes the new style of warfare is not a refutation of that style. It just [the general] is 'Old School.' But Old School is not necessary the best school." You should definitely read the whole thing.
Thanks for the link!
Today, Rush read from a another's Generals statement rebutting most of what these Generals were saying. I didnt realize that Zinni was another Clarke..
Oh, well, yeah, if he said it on NPR it must be true. NOT!
Rush also talked about the fact that all these generals were in on the review session in 2003, was this a good plan or not, speak up now. Well, they didn't. And the plan went forward. Now, someone's selling a book, and trying to generate interest. Pathetic bunch of losers. I'd rather have sargeants run the army instead of generals. At least sargeants know what's what.
I had found and then lost a killer article about how even Clinton was butting heads against the stuffed shirt generals that hadn't a clue how to fight a non conventional enemy. An enemy without uniforms that didn't fight in a battlefield.
I agree that the Pentagon has been dragged kicking and screaming into 21st century reality by Rumsfeld and they resent him very much for being smarter than they are.
If anyone could point me to the article again, I'd be most grateful.
10 years worth of worthless, do nothing but sit around eating pizza with the Pres on the Oval Office rug?
10 years when Clintooon tore apart the military, dismantled it to near extinction, pilots having to rob other planes for parts to keep a small portion of a squadron flying, caused the moral to be at all time low, with troops opting out at an unprecedented rate - promoting like minded (think Clintooon and Kerrrrry) military up the ladder - (They NEEDED to be weeded! er retired)
Why don't these armchair generals STFU...They wanted to fight at 21st cent war with 19th cent weapons and tactics -
GO AWAY
Report (from another thread):
General Tommy Franks cleaned Hissy's clock on Hairball. Too bad it's not repeated on Friday. Hope one of the blogs captured the exchange.
34 - four star generals/admirals
124 - three star generals/admirals
278 - two star generals/admirals
439 - one star generals/admirals
Throw in the U.S. Coast Guard and you have 900 generals and admirals on active duty today. Roughly 15-20% of these retire each year.
Also interesting to note: The current number of flag grade (generals and admirals) billets, for a military of 1,400,000, is basically the same that we grew to during WWII, with a military of 12,000,000.
This is like how Joe Wilson originally argued that we shouldn't invade Iraq because the WMDs Iraq had would make our losses during an invasion too great, and then afterwards arguing that we shouldn't have invaded because there were no WMDs.
Thanks. It seems we might be a bit heavy in the brass.
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