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  • Retired Gen.: Bush Should Sign Iraq Bill

    04/28/2007 9:14:39 AM PDT · by leadpenny · 97 replies · 1,640+ views
    AP ^ | 28 Apr 07 | KASIE HUNT, AP Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush should sign legislation starting the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on Oct. 1, retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom said Saturday. "I hope the president seizes this moment for a basic change in course and signs the bill Congress has sent him," Odom said, delivering the Democrats' weekly radio address. Odom, an outspoken critic of the war who served as the Army's top intelligence officer and headed the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration, delivered the address at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. He said he has never been a...
  • The Generals Speak

    11/19/2004 10:02:57 AM PST · by Former Military Chick · 84 replies · 1,727+ views
    Rolling Stone ^ | November 25, 2004 | Paul Alexander
    In the nineteen months since the war in Iraq began, some of the most outspoken critics of President Bush's plan of attack have come from a group that should have been the most supportive: retired senior military leaders. We spoke with a group of generals and admirals that included a former supreme Allied commander and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and they all agreed on one thing: Bush screwed up. Gen. Merrill "Tony" McPeak, Air Force chief of staff, 1990-94 We have a force in Iraq that's much too small to stabilize the situation. It's about half the...