Posted on 11/28/2006 7:11:13 PM PST by ikez78
Mike DeLong Inside CentCom
If you want the inside story of what was being said and done at the top levels of U.S. government from the September 11th attacks until the fall of Saddam Hussein, you can ask one of two men -- Army General Tommy Franks, or Marine Corps General Mike DeLong, who was Franks' deputy.
Listen to Mike DeLong at link....
(Excerpt) Read more at eyeonbooks.com ...
Yes it is. Sir John Gielgud.(RIP) He won the Oscar for best supporting actor in that film.
And that was one of my favorite lines in the movie. ;o)
They already have the "blame Bush" options covered. If we are hit by another big attack it will be due to Bush antagonizing the Muslim world. Then they will say Bush failed to protect us. And if we don't get hit, they will say the threat was all Bush lies and fearmongering.
Her and millions other like her.
The administration has done nothing to defend itself. President Bush has been ill-served through the years. IMHO
That's what I have been saying ever since we invaded Iraq, but no one in Washington seems to remember anything about that heavy truck traffic to Syria. I distinctly remember watching TV coverage of USAF air surveillance shots of long convoys of heavy military trucks heading out of eastern Iraq toward the Syrian border during the time when our forces were still advancing toward Baghdad. The TV commentator even mentioned the possibility that the trucks were hauling WMDs to Syria to hide them from American forces and keep them in the hands of Saddam's Syrian friends.
But in the aftermath of occupying Baghdad all those truck convoys seemed to have been forgotten. I have to wonder why the Bush administration doesn't even acknowledge that any of that ever happened. If Israel has to go into Syria some day to clean out that rat's nest, I have to believe they will discover that Saddam actually had the WMD stuff he was accused of having.
Actually, I know that Chesty Puller wrote a book (late '60s), and I believe General Singlaub may have written several books. I don't know Colonel Howard. Generals writing memoirs is as old as Caesar's commentaries.
Geez, I wonder if the media will fall down and worship this general and quote his every word endlessly like they do every general who said Rumsfeld should be fired or that Iraq was a mistake.
Right. And therein lies the root cause of much of the criticism Rumsfeld and Bush have been getting from the retired desk jockey brass, aided and encouraged of course by the MSM traitors.
The supposedly antiwar DemoRats and media whores don't really care about the war, or whether or not we can work out a solution for Iraq, or how many Americans and innocent Iraqis die trying. They're only obsessed with regaining the power they lost beginning with Gingrich and the Contract with America that prevented the Clintons getting everything that they and the other Rats wanted during the last 6 years of their reign of deceit, lies, and outright treason.
I truly believe that many, no make that most, of the traitorous Rat/MSM combine would sell our country out to the most dangerous enemy we have if that treachery would get them the power trip they so desperately crave. In fact, Clinton did sell out his country to it's enemy by selling highly classified missile guidance technology to Red China for campaign money.
I'm very much afraid that the US has survived and triumphed over 2 centuries worth of foreign enemies only to be brought down by it's own domestic enemies who hate everything good, right, and decent that America has stood for and fought for over those two centuries.
WOW Mark!, Eye thanks for the ping.
To tell us how it was. What's wrong with generals writing books??
What about Lt Gen Hal Moore? He wrote a book.
Yeah. And General Dwight D, Eisenhower wrote Crusade in Europe.
I thought they had already proved that convoys going into Syria just before invasion had no other purpose, which partially explains Syria's current bravado. They're armed to the max!
I read an article where someone had figured out that it amounted to something like 1/1000 of retired and active generals. 4700 retired and 900 active
The article was http://www.slate.com/id/2139847/
It's incomplete now though.
Maybe because it will make a fantastic thing to crow about all doing 2007!
bump
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.