Stuck in the Quicksand (Hackworth Article Poor Timing Alert)

SFTT.Org ^ | April 1, 2003 | David H. Hackworth

[Conservababe]

Lord love a duck, I remember the retired generals in Gulf War I on CNN (hey, it was the only thing we had, remember)?

They had for weeks told us, with maps and smirks, of the battle plans.

And I remember the night that we came by land and not by sea, as they and Saddam thought. To this day, I wish a had a photo of one general's open gaping mouth when he realized that he had been snookered.

LOL

[PJ-Comix]

Diane Feinstein on Larry King just said that the Plan IS working. Big change from a few days ago when all the naysayers were attacking the Plan.

p.s. For some reason I am having visions of Tattoo yelling: "De Plan, boss, de Plan."

[lawdude]

"God I LOVE seeing that self engrossed media pig go down hard like this! YES!!!"

About a year ago, I posted a comment to one of his self-agrandizing articles wherein I had the audacity to express my considered opinion that he was an arogant ASS.

WOW, you would think I had accused the Pope of child abuse, or hinted that Lee Greenwood was a closet commie. I was damn near kicked off the FR network.

BOY-OH-BOY, do I feel vindicated!

[PhiKapMom]

Sad part is that he never missed a beat and if you heard him for the first time you would have thought he thought the world of General Myers and General Franks. Unbelieveable!

[okie01]

"I plan to ignore Hackworth in the future."

The moral of this story is: Before you buy into the logic of a retired colonel, give consideration as to why he isn't a retired general.

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!! I had forgotten about that.

Also remember the AF General Dugan who got fired for leaking war plans that ended up on CNN as an analyst. Wanted to throw something at the TV everytime he came on.

[The Westerner]

He seems like a straightshooter. Thanks for the insight. What was Powell like?

[Jorge]

McCaffrey is a total joke which made his backtracking so funny! Couldn't even stick by his statements when confronted and tried to suck up! He looked even worse than he did when he was trashing!

ROFL! This is too funny.

But let's not "gloat" to much just yet...we still have to take Baghdad.

[OriginalV]

Now if I remember correctly, I belive we had 6 US divisions that fought the first Gulf, and that's not counting additional coaliton forces.

For the most part we have been operating with 1 infantry division and 1 armored division, not counting coaltion forces, and were still whopping butt. Now we all know that the only reason this war broke the 100hr mark to was to keep Iraqi civilians deaths at a bare minimum.

Funny though how hackysack left those points out.

[1poedpatriot]

Diane Feinstein on Larry King just said that the Plan IS working.

barf !!!!

[Mr. Mojo]

BOY-OH-BOY, do I feel vindicated!

As well you should. I tore into Hack a few months ago and experienced a similar reaction.

[Howlin]

This war will remove Col. Hackworth as a credible source of current military strategy and techniques forever....

Among others. I wish we had been keeping a list.

[PhiKapMom]

You are right about Baghdad and we still have hot spots around the Country including in Northern Iraq.

I did hear something interesting on the radio tonight -- seems Saddam rebuilt of lot of Baghdad and it now has wide streets which the analyst said should made it easier for our troops not to get caught in narrow streets and ambushed.

[Billthedrill]

but as people get old, like he is, the mind starts to shrink, especially in males...

Hey, just a durn minute, that isn't so! Why, I can blidge snarfle zimblividach just as well as I ever...uh...I'd really like some ice cream right now. Do you like ice cream? What time is it?

[Nevermore]

Obviously, Mr. Hackworth is well-deserving of his family name: he is truly worthy of being called a hack.

[jackbill]

He seems like a straightshooter. Thanks for the insight. What was Powell like?

My view of Powell was "go along to get along". We saw, in Gulf War I how timid and how wrong he was.

[Tunehead54]

Quote of Day Candidate:

I guess if we don't have zero losses, zero civilian casualties (not so much as an injured baby Goat), and the whole opposing country cheering a warm welcome within 24 hours, it's a "hopeless quagmire dwarfing Viet Nam."

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[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What an absolutely idiotic column. This definitely gives credence to the earlier FR threads that said Hackworth is a Democrat. I believe it.

[Reagan Man]

This article is preposterous.

David Hackworth has gone way off the reservation with this rant. Hack seems to forget, the 100 hours of ground combat in the Gulf War was preceeded by 40 days of heavy and intense bombing of Republican Guard units. Operation Iraqi Freedom is only 15 days old and Allied Forces have made significant progress. We are winning this war Hack. Get a grip.