[AntiGuv]

I originally read it in the Washington Post. Here's an article I just Googled up from The Nation:

The Generals Revolt

Batiste commanded an army division in Iraq and was offered three-stars as well as the No. 2 position there. He chose instead to retire rather than continuing to serve under Rumsfeld.

Here it is also at PBS and ABC News.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Have any quotes of the General confirming this? The Nation and Mark Shields are not the most reliable sources.

[Reactionary]

Ooo. A single general doesn't like Rummy. Ooo. My.

What clownish idiocy.

[HawaiianGecko]

Isn't Batiste saying he was offered a leadership position from the man who doesn't recognize leadership, but turned it down.  LOL this is really funny.

 

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"I originally read it in the Washington Post. Here's an article I just Googled up from The Nation"

Well, that confirms it. Read the Nation a lot, do you? The WaPo and PBS? Yup, ABC has often taught me what is really happening and shaped my thinking.

Michael Frazier

[Torie]

Has there been written anywhere a coherent case that Rumsfeld made misjudgments that compromised the war effort? Is it really clear that more troops would have made much difference? Is it clear that it was possible to fashion an effective Iraqi military authority earlier? Do any of these generals really have the breadth of knowledge of the puzzle palace to really know? Isn't the real problem the power clash between Sunnis and Shiites, that probably could not have been finessed? That strikes me as one of those success has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan thingies.