US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 02/25/07 | Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter

[Parrot_was_devastating]

Time to arm with Resolve and Kick Darius's Ass![Iran].....Gates of Fire....Persia must Fall!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Always listen to experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
Then do it.

LAZARUS LONG

[TChris]

Any general with that mindset should be retired now.

Ditto that. GWB should interview each one in turn and ask for their commitment to follow orders. Any doubt or hesitation should be met with an immediate relief of duties.

[WLR]

Actually you want Generals to resign if they feel the mission cannot be accomplished with the resources so apportioned orif some aspect of the mission is not militarily sound.. far different that agreeing or disagreeing about the mission itself.

Thats not what these guys are doing ... They are directly engaging in political theater as Generals(If they exist). That is clearly unlawful under the UCMJ..

The problem here is with 900 some active Generals and Admirals you are going to have percentage that will disagree with every action just due to the sheer numbers. At less than 1% of the total number they are statistically meaningless.

If a General resigns because he does not believe a mission can be accomplished properly due to tactical or logistical considerations which are correctable and after requesting they be corrected that is not done.

That's legitimate and honorable.


These Generals (if they exist) are resigning ostensibly because they disagree with the mission. That is no more lawful than Watanabe's Baloney, no difference.

W

[oneamericanvoice]

I was never in disagreement with you. Isn't it funny that the "generals and admirals" weren't named....I, too, don't believe they exist. However, as you pointed out, there will always be those that disagree with the way a mission is carried out. When I served, as did my Father and Mother, I would never have expressed such sentiments publicly.

[rdl6989]

Yep, the B.S. meter is definitely on TILT.

[OKSooner]

"One thing is for sure, and we would be stupid not to learn from our mistakes.

If we DO attack Iran, we damned well better have the facts 100% incontrovertibly right, our intelligence rock solid, and such a massive, quick and unmerciless plan of attack, mop up and occupation/reconstruction that any remaining Iranian Revolutionary resistance will last no longer than a fortnight at most, rather than nearly four years of bogged down, garrisoned, IED, guerilla warfare and suicide bomb attack crap like we've had now in Iraq, which has facilitated a major split in the country and fed the likes of anti-patriotic, anti-troop CNN.

Our troops deserve it. Victory, absolute and unconditional at that, or don't go in at all. "

What you said.