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Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffrey who now serves as a "military analyst" for MSNBC tweeted out footage of fighting in Ukraine that was actually a clip from a video game. On Monday, retired four-star general and MSNBC "military analyst" Barry R. McCaffrey posted a clip of video game footage to Twitter. Alongside it he claimed it was a display of strength from Ukraine's air defense. It's actually footage from a video game. The clip in question came from YouTube's "shorts" section, and is titled "Russian MiG-29's Get Shot Down By Air Defense System | Arma 3 #Shorts #Airdefense #Arma3."...

On Monday, retired four-star general and MSNBC "military analyst" Barry R. McCaffrey posted a clip of video game footage to Twitter. Alongside it he claimed it was a display of strength from Ukraine's air defense. It's actually footage from a video game.

In 2020, if you wanted to get a Democrat outraged, you’d have someone in President Donald Trump’s administration speak ill of the media. In 2021, if you want to get a Democrat outraged, have a member of the media speak ill of someone in President Joe Biden’s administration. In this regard, Fox News host Tucker Carlson seems to be a prominent target, particularly when he criticizes how the military has gone woke. On his program Thursday, he criticized Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Mark Milley for his remarks defending critical race theory training and saying he wanted to understand...

Retired four star general Barry McCaffrey called for Fox News host Tucker Carlson to be fired for insulting Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley. General Milley proudly told Congress on Wednesday that he wants to understand “white rage” and is studying the concept. Milley defended Critical Race Theory as well. On Thursday Tucker Carlson UNLOADED on Gen. Milley for his ignorant and unimpressive statements to Congress. "Mark Milley is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He didn’t get that job because he’s brilliant or because he’s brave or because the people who know him, respect him....

EL PASO, Texas -- Texas Governor Rick Perry was in El Paso Tuesday with some stern words about the Mexican violence on our doorstep. For many people, the governor's words served as a reason to stay motivated in keeping the violence out of the United States. Perry said he is pushing for millions to further fund border protection efforts. "I called on the legislature to dedicate $135 million to our ongoing border security efforts." Perry said the money will primarily go toward "putting more boots on the ground," meaning getting more people on the border to keep the threat out....

WHEN New York Times "investigative reporter" David Barstow was in kindergarten, a young Army officer lay in a hospital bed recovering from one of the three grievous wounds he would suffer in the course of four combat tours in our nation's service. Barstow never felt compelled to serve his country in any capacity. Instead, he dedicated his life to that godlike calling, journalism, in which those who never actually do anything are empowered to attack those who get things done. That wounded officer, Barry McCaffrey, would rise from his hospital bed and, despite losing most of the use of one...

As the first anniversary of its grand declaration fast approaches, does NBC continue to believe that Iraq is in a state of civil war? Readers will recall that as we described here, Matt Lauer opened the Today show on November 27th, 2006 with these words: Good morning. Civil war. A bloody weekend of sectarian clashes in Iraq and no sign it's letting up. A bit later, Lauer portentously declared: For months the White House rejected claims that the situation in Iraq has deteriorated into civil war. For the most part news organizations like NBC hesitated to characterize it as such....

Willie Geist's genius as an observer of the political and pop cultural scene has been his ability to stay largely above the fray. But guest-hosting for Joe Scarborough on today's "Morning Joe," Geist let the curtain down enough to make clear his pessimism about the Iraq war and desire to have the US exit post-haste. At the same time, retired General Barry McCaffrey made no effort to hide his contempt for Barack Obama's foray into foreign policy regarding Pakistan. Geist interviewed MSNBC commentator McCaffrey at 6:30 A.M. EDT this morning. McCaffrey at one point opined that he could envision the...

In a report distributed last week, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, an often fierce critic of the war who was just back from a visit to Iraq, said he found Iraqi army units "real, growing and willing to fight," but that they needed "two to five more years of U.S. partnership and combat backup" before they're ready to stand alone. The police are "heavily infiltrated" by insurgent forces and Shiite militias, short of resources and "incapable of confronting local armed groups," McCaffrey said. Stabilizing Iraq will take at least 10 years and require "patience, significant resources and an international public...

THE BOTTOM LINE - OBSERVATIONS FROM IRAQI FREEDOM, APRIL 2006: Barry R McCaffrey General USA (Ret) Adjunct Professor of International Affairs     April 25, 2006 MEMORANDUM FOR: COLONEL MIKE MEESE DEPARTMENT HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Subject: Academic Report- Trip to Iraq and Kuwait Thursday 13 April through Thursday 20 April 2006 1. PURPOSE: This memo provides follow-on feedback reference visit 13-20 April 2006 to Iraq and Kuwait. Look forward to doing a faculty seminar with Department of Social Sciences at your convenience in the Fall semester. 2. SOURCES – IRAQ: a. General George Casey,...

Wednesday, May 03, 2006 The McCaffrey trip report General Barry McCaffrey (USA ret) made a trip to Iraq last April 13-20 and set out his observations in a widely circulated PDF summarized in the press reports here and here. While a verbatim copy has not been posted on the Web a reader has been kind enough to send the full text. MSNBC described McCaffrey as skeptic on the war as early as 2003. The New Republic called General McCaffrey Secretary Rumsfeld's "most outspoken critic" in 2004. McCaffrey made an earlier observation trip to Iraq in June 2005 whose findings are...

How the CIA Funds Anti-Bush Propaganda By Bill Gertz The Washington Times | September 14, 2004 The CIA's Counterterrorist Center has spent more than $15 million in the past three years funding studies, reports and conferences produced by former Democratic administration officials and other critics of the Bush administration. The latest effort was a $300,000 grant by the CIA to the Atlantic Council for a study co-authored by Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism official who wrote a best seller accusing the Bush administration of failing in the war on terrorism by invading Iraq.

Retired General Barry McCaffrey said Sunday that claims by Sen. Joseph Biden that U.S. forces in Iraq have trained just 3,000 Iraqi troops to fight without U.S. help are flat out wrong. Asked about Biden's contention, Gen. McCaffrey told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the actual number of self-sufficient Iraqi troops was far higher. "My judgment is today there are probably 110 battalions fielded, probably 36 of them are capable of taking a lead in active operations." Each Iraqi division is comprised of 600 troops, McCaffrey said, putting the full number of self sufficient Iraqi troops at 21,600 - more...

Right now, The Drudge Report has a link in red titled, "TIME MAG QUOTES RETIRED ARMY GENERAL: 'THERE ARE NO MORE AMERICAN TROOPS TO SEND TO IRAQ'..." (Click here to see the Time story.) When you get there, it's: C O V E RWhat Should Bush Do? The President must decide how to stabilize Iraq. A diplomat, a Senator and a general weigh in on the options By MORTON ABRAMOWITZ, RICHARD LUGAR AND BARRY MCCAFFREY Monday, Apr. 19, 2004 Here's the part by Barry McCaffery: "We need 80,000 or more troops added to the U.S. Army." When a grass fire...

Monday, Apr. 19, 2004"[Bush] might redefine success and announce a quicker exit strategy."The bloody events in Iraq over the past month have raised the specter of another huge American disaster, the possibility that after again spending blood and huge treasure we will have to get out of Iraq without leaving a stable democratic government and the Middle East transformed—at least not in the way the Administration expected. As uncertainty rises in the U.S. about what we are doing in Iraq, the bipartisan consensus insists that we must "stay the course" because failure to do so will have "catastrophic" consequences for...

The President must decide how to stabilize Iraq. A diplomat, a Senator and a general weigh in on the options"[Bush] might redefine success and announce a quicker exit strategy." The bloody events in Iraq over the past month have raised the specter of another huge American disaster, the possibility that after again spending blood and huge treasure we will have to get out of Iraq without leaving a stable democratic government and the Middle East transformed—at least not in the way the Administration expected. As uncertainty rises in the U.S. about what we are doing in Iraq, the bipartisan consensus...

LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led force in Iraq risks as many as 3,000 casualties in the battle for Baghdad and Washington has underestimated the number of troops needed, a top former commander from the 1991 Gulf War said on Monday. Retired U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey, commander of the 24th Infantry Division 12 years ago, said the U.S.-led force faced "a very dicey two to three day battle" as it pushes north towards the Iraqi capital. "We ought to be able to do it (take Baghdad)," he told the Newsnight Programme on Britain's BBC Television late on Monday....

<p>We need to get out of denial and face reality if we expect to make rational and determined policy decisions on Iraq. It will take no less than two years of inspired leadership, courageous soldiering and $100 billion to put that nation back on its feet. Make no mistake, the air-ground-sea tactical victory by Gen. Tommy Franks's coalition forces was nothing less than brilliant. But to finish the job we need more U.S. combat forces on active duty to sustain the required force levels. We currently have 190,000 U.S. troops directly engaged in Iraq and Kuwait. Without the overall troop strength to support our Iraq, Afghanistan and Korea deployments, we risk breaking the back of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in the coming 24 months.</p>

Reducing troops in Iraq would be 'a disaster,' McCaffrey says By Eric Rosenberg Hearst Newspapers Monday, May 5, 2003 WASHINGTON — A force of about 100,000 American troops will be needed to police Iraq for the next five years in order to bring stability and a democratic-style government to the country, a former U.S. commander in the first Persian Gulf War said Monday. Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who commanded the 24th Mechanized Division that helped expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, said a smaller occupation force could undermine the swift U.S.-led victory that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. There...

April 10, 2003, 7:45 a.m.Hall of ShameMedia recriminations after VB Day.By NR Staff o many pundits, pols, and, yes, celebs, said so many wrong — and downright silly — things about the war in Iraq, prewar. We knew that back then, but now that Baghdad has effectively been liberated by the U.S.-lead Coalition, we provide a handy snapshot of what was said by some of those who should be looking down and making their apologies. Included here are Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, and Barry McCaffrey, the latter one of the retired-general second guessers Vice President Dick Cheney dubbed “embedded...