[onyx]

No agenda here! (sarcasm)

The war according to David Hackworth

The retired colonel calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole" whose bad planning mired U.S. troops in an ugly guerrilla conflict in Iraq. His sources? Defiant soldiers sending dispatches from the front.


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/08/04/hackworth/index_np.html

[Texasforever]

Hack is the very essence of a 3rd string quarterback bitter because "politics' prevented him from being the starter.

[Howlin]

Most of those "defiant soldiers" only joined for the money.

[McGavin999]

So, to get even with Rumsfeld, he sacrifices the lives of our military?

[CWOJackson]

Few people, who claim HACK as being so sort of military superstar, recall his involvement with the suicide of Admiral Jeremy Borda...the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed by the HACK...and after finding out that the HACK was going to do a hatchet job on him, claiming that one of the medals he wore wasn't earned.

Turned out the medal was properly earned but he knew his career would be trashed following the HACK's assisination piece. A few months later HACK found out to his own dismay that the he wasn't entitled to the Ranger Tab he always claimed he earned.

I doubt the HACK lost any sleep over either.

[ValerieUSA]

All the sordid details of the sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners reminds me of the leather restraint "sex toys" discovered in Congressman Condit's Washington DC apartment during the investigation of his young mistress's disappearance.
Where were the congressional hearings into his abusive behavior towards government interns? Oh, that wasn't so bad... it's not like she ended up dead or anything ....

[MJY1288]

Thanks for the link... I have known for a while that Hackworth was no fan of Rumsfeld. Most field commanders have very few kind words for their civilian leaders. But Hackworth seemed to have gone over the edge during the lead up to the Iraq War. Maybe it would be wise to see if Hackworth has any connections to Scott Ritter or any of the companies that were on the "Take" in the U.N. "Oil for Food" Program