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A Mean, Green Machine (David Hackworth Suddenly Changes His Tune)
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| April 8, 2003
| David H. Hackworth
Posted on 04/10/2003 2:15:26 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Yeah, but instead of running for cover, he did the stand-up thing and admitted he was wrong - a pretty tall order for an ego like Hack.
Subjugating one's ego for the greater good is a very American trait - good for Hack....
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:09:13 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is a war room".)
To: PJ-Comix
Hack is trying to get out of the hole he dug for himself. Once again, he is irrelevant as he tries to wave the flag as cover for himself. What a disgrace.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:13:43 AM PDT
by
cynicom
To: PJ-Comix
We ain't buying it, Colonel Worthless Hack!
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:17:32 AM PDT
by
KevinB
To: Dane
Give them a pass for trying to deflate moral in the battlefield for purely partisan and vain reasons? Sorry I disagree, these embedded tv studio generals behavior was disgusting. Ditto. Hack has zero credibility after his three weeks of pandering. I view him as little different than the democrat presidential candidates who came out against the war, hoping we would be defeated and they'd come out ahead politically. Hack displayed the same behavior in a different arena.
To: Gracey
Cheney is awesome,I hope he runs with Bush in 2004.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:19:45 AM PDT
by
deedgirl
To: Psalm 73
Good for future appearances and books? I salute his service but his punditry has been awful.He comes off as a know it all..and he didn't,doesn't and never will know it all.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:19:59 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: PJ-Comix
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Hack been the voice of doom and gloom throughout this war?
Everybody likes to side with a winner...........:)
To: PJ-Comix
Notice that after he was ****canned by all of the conservative talk shows and basically booted off FNC, he's changed his tune. I guess his agent pointed out that being a "MSNBC Military Expert" doesn't do you a lot of good when there are only 3 people and 4 poodles watching the network.
V
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:25:04 AM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for unable to find anyone to surrender to)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:28:48 AM PDT
by
visagoth
(If you think education is expensive - try ignorance)
To: PJ-Comix
This is the same military that this Hack was lambasting as too weak, too out of shape, too femanized by the Clinton years? The same military whose battalion and brigade commanders either started the careers or developed under thos Clinton mandates? Now he's changing his tune, isn't he?
People talk about a Clinton military and how he destroyed it. What the last few weeks have shown is that we don't have a Clinton military or a Bush military, we have the Armed Forces of the United States. Regardless of who is in the Oval Office, no matter how much he tried to destroy it, the military continued to do it's best. It continued to crank out dedicated enlisted men and women, and highly competent commanders. So let's give them credit for the job that they have done in spite of what they had to put up with during 1992-2000.
To: PJ-Comix
I read this - AND his previous articles.
At one time I admired his outlook ; then, I began to wonder.I expressed my reservations about some of what he was saying- on his SFTT message board. Silence. I expressed the same reservations here, and ignited a flame war.
How DARE I say anything critical about this hero ?
I'll say it again. Hackworth is a genuine hero, and, as such,is worthy of respect and admiration. This does NOT make him a godlike figure, whose every word must be cherished.
Hackworth's "problem" is that he is writing for a "perceived audience" : one that traditionally votes Democrat, and that is hostile to/ suspicious of the present Administration. He also seems to have some issues with the "Brass" - ( I believe the Brass had some issues with him during the Vietnam conflict, as well. )
In any event, some of his newspaper /website columns wound up sounding like Iraqi "psy-ops" : almost guaranteed to worry the typical GI reading them. I'd like to think his reason for writing these columns was genuine concern; but, looking at his archives, the over-all impression I got was one of spiteful sniping.
Now, a singular victory having been won, he seems to have reversed course, and is shouting: " Congratulations ! I was with you all the way ! "
Wonder what he'll say NEXT week ???????
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:49:49 AM PDT
by
genefromjersey
(Save the last 6 for pall-bearers !)
To: PJ-Comix
Dear David,
You are a whack job. Please don't bother us any more. You made the decision to become a 'personality' instead of a person and then you became an idiot. Go away.
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posted on
04/10/2003 4:53:42 AM PDT
by
mercy
To: mercy
Everytime I see him, he sounds more effeminate. I guess it is the leftie side coming out.
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posted on
04/10/2003 5:02:13 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
To: PJ-Comix
Camouflaged chameleon
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posted on
04/10/2003 5:07:23 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: MEG33
He comes off as a know it all.Yeah, "big time", but that makes his admission of being terribly wrong that much harder.
I've never been much of a "Hack" man, (that EGO drives me nuts) but I admire anyone who can publicly say he was wrong - I doubt we will get the same from Klintons boy McCaffery....
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:18:44 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is a war room".)
To: PJ-Comix
It's nice that Hackworth has changed his tune from his previous ARTICLE but his credibility is still pretty well destroyed as a result of it. His credibility was destroyed long ago - after all this is the same guy who initially came out against Desert Storm and predicted that we would lose tens of thousands of troops.
To: Gracey
I've yet to see a Republican smear a Democrat when the tables were turned It would be nice if true...but it isn't. Partisanship is universal and never stops. Even Washington despaired of it.
To: PJ-Comix
At least Hack was man enough to smile and eat his crow in front of the rest of us. For that I must give him credit. FWIW, I still hold him somewhat responsible for the death of Admiral Boorda while he displayed an unearned Ranger tab.
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posted on
04/10/2003 8:42:42 AM PDT
by
wasp69
(The time has come.......)
To: Non-Sequitur
If Bush didn't have the Reserves to pull up we never would have even tried this war with Iraq! There was a Reserve guy on MSNBC or FOX this morning who has been on active duty for 16 months. He also has a son on active duty in the war. Clinton screwed America.
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posted on
04/10/2003 9:29:15 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Keep America safe! Thank the troops for our freedom. No slack for Iraq!)
To: genefromjersey
You said it!
In any event, some of his newspaper /website columns wound up sounding like Iraqi "psy-ops" : almost guaranteed to worry the typical GI reading them. I'd like to think his reason for writing these columns was genuine concern; but, looking at his archives, the over-all impression I got was one of spiteful sniping.
Thanks
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posted on
04/10/2003 9:30:27 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Keep America safe! Thank the troops for our freedom. No slack for Iraq!)
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