I’m sorry - I can’t read this site as much as I used to - I’m not familiar with the person or position he held or why he was let go.
I look at it this way.
Gitmo is still open. President Bush has said he would rather it close but he cares much more about what to do with the brutal killers that are held there, so it won’t be closed until the issues of what to do with those brutal killers is satisfactorily resolved. Too bad all of you can’t make him your puppet or parrot, so that the exact words you want out of his mouth always come out and never disappoint you.
Myself, I don’t expect his every utterance to be the words I would use. I won’t get upset unless he closes Gitmo without thought or care concerning the disposition of those brutal killers. So far, he has kept it open and that would not be happening if he had lost either in 2000 or 2004, and it will not remain open if he’s replaced by the wrong person.
Mullen should just keep his mouth shut. The President has spoken, and has acted. Please shut up, Admiral, Sir.
Here are some threads regarding Steve Coughlin (probably more than you care to read):
Muslim pressure [Pentagon Pro-Muslimists Go After Analyst]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945144/posts
Coughlin Sacked [Pentagon Analyst Who Wrote About Islam] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948200/posts
A Purple Heart In War Of Ideas?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950246/posts
Foul Play [More on the Fired Pentagon Analyst]:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951956/posts
Coughlin [Pentagon Islamic Analyst] backed [by military]:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951948/posts