Here are things that I have noticed over the last 6 years:
1. Bill Clinton, before leaving office, moved many lower level political appointees into civil service positions within the government. These people are in the Pentagon, State, Justice, and the CIA. They cannot be fired unless they are caught doing something really wrong, like stealing or embezzlement. These are the sources of the unending leaks.
2. There definitely is a faction in the CIA which is pro-democrat, anti-Bush, and has been screwing up intelligence and leaking information since shortly after September 11, 2001.
3. General McInnerny said yesterday that associates of John Kerry were facilitating the meetings of the dissident generals with the press.
4. Interesting that these generals choose to speak out NOW, and not 6 months ago. Why would that be>
I am not one for black helicopters and tin foil theories, but I am beginning to fear that there is a real conspiracy by liberals within the government, aided and abbetted by the press in real and not imagined collusion.
Holbrooke may be having delusions of grandeur over his influence and how many generals would actually jump ship, but Tony Blankley is taking this seriously, and I have never known him to be an alarmist.
The critics (Kerry, Biden, Pelosi, Harkins, etc) were calling for Rumsfeld's head around the same time in 2004. These same shrill tones are now coming from the generals, some of whom are still using the arguments about the invasion plan. Why then and now? In 2004 it was the Presidential election and now it is the mid-terms
The attacks on Rumsfeld are really attacks on Bush and the war. A Rumsfeld resignation is an admission that the war is not going well and that the war was a mistake. Some are comparing Rumsfeld to McNamara so that the Iraq war can be linked to Vietnam. In sum, it is all about politics and nothing else.
That is practically treasonous to me. I got out in 1973, made to feel ashamed of my service because of Kerry's concurrent boostering the chopping off of fingers and heads crap so he could launch his political career in Leftachussetts.
But I did get a job in Leftachusetts! (though the state later became Left-it-chussetts to me).