US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack

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

[DarthVader]

Hey generals resign now!!

[Popocatapetl]

There are currently about 875 active duty flag officers in the US military.

[LibKill]

At one point in the War Between the States, Lincoln received a report of the loss of a general and a hundred mules. He remarked that it was more vexing to lose the mules as he could make generals all day, but mules cost money.

Hehe.

[Shots]

yeah sure is disinformation. Sure they can attempt to resign but that does not mean the government has to accept their resignation doh!

[em2vn]

Then when someone more liberal than "W" fills the White House the same thing should be done? Wise up.

[Keflavik76]

“All the generals are perfectly clear that they don’t have the military capacity to take Iran on in any meaningful fashion.

This line is an absolute joke, disinformation, or absolute BS. The current crop of journalists must think the American people are very gullible or at worst complete idiots.

[em2vn]

I don't think you are correct. Under the GWHB and Clinton administrations, thousands of military personnal were fired to lessen the force numbers.

[dfwgator]

According to highly placed defence and intelligence sources, monkeys could fly out of my butt.

[Shots]

forgot to mention if their resignation is refused they can be court martialed if they refuae to obey orders lol

[RichInOC]

I understand that newly-promoted one-stars get a speech at their general/flag-officer orientation training, the relevant part of which goes "guys, you're here because you're very, very good...but if you'd all died in a crash on the way in, we could go back to the remaining O-6es and pick guys just as good. You're not indispensable."

[longtermmemmory]

This smacks of a Colin Powell sour grapes special.


Colin Powell was the number one leaker when he was around in the first administration and it he constantly boasts of "his contacts" in the pentagon.

These generals sound like the paper pushers like weasley clark and his jimmy carter ilk.

[Ciexyz]

I'm seriously confused over this issue and wish the people in power would stop spreading stories of this nature, it simply upsets people. If the damn generals don't like their jobs, let them quit and turn over their generous salaries to the government. As an American taxpayer, I'm tired of pandering to these crybabies. Nuff said.

[ZULU]

"Anyone deserting the fort will be shot. Anyone encouraging anyone to desert will be hanged." - Colonel Munroe, Last of the Mohegans.

HOW many are 6 generals out of all we have at the Pentagon? If Bush knows who they are, he should ask for their resignations on his desk immediately.

We can't have a stable Iraq with the Ayatollahs in power in Iran or the Baathists in control in Syria. In America, overall policy decisions, for better or worse, are made by an elected executive - the President. If it was good enough for Washington and the Continental Congress, it should be good enough for these clowns - whoever they are.

Chances are most of them are "political generals" who oozed their way through the ranks the same way most politicians rise to the top, instead of fighting generals anyway. So who cares?

[evangmlw]

They should be shown the door and immediately discharged.

[Miss Marple]

That isn't firing. Certain groups or classes were allowed to leave when their term was up. Some categories had their time shortened, but that isn't the same as firing.

[Prost1]

All Clinton appointees, no doubt!

They're the only ones with the flappy jaws.

[Eagles6]

This is a blivet of epic proportions.

[longtermmemmory]

The problem is the Jimmy Carter years allowed an influx of paper soldier where were thare for the security of a no war government pension.

Then you have the clinton years where their first job done on the military was the don't ask don't tell effort to homosexualize and quota queen social experiment the military.

I would imagin, it will take to 2012 for the fake soldiers who enrolled in 1992 to work their way to pensions.

I also suspect these paper generals are with zero chance of qualifying for a promotion and so a protest retirement is rather meaningless and a way to stab at the White House for their not getting the promotion they feel entitled to recieve to courageous paper pushing.

If they were REAL men on conviction they would also refuse their pensions.

[retMD]

anyone under consideration for general should have their political views investigated before being promoted. Those who are already generals should have the same done, and the ones deemed unreliable should be kicked out.

I believe the USSR tried that policy. Don't think it worked too well for them.

[Obie Wan]

Well we're all entitled to our own opinion sweet cheeks but here's a truth. Three wars,five wars or fifty wars,one of the most potentially dangerous countries as far as the USA is concerned is Iran NO QUESTION. These crazy bastards given nuclear weapons would not only seek to destroy Israel,but would use any chance they had to hit the US also. If we or the Israelis or both combined don't do something about this pain-in -the-ass country soon,I believe we will regret it bigtime !!!