senior military officials stepping up and saying "this guy really
scares me."
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:48:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: What if?
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rarely if ever in American history have uniformed
> commanders felt compelled
> to challenge their commander in chief in public.
You've got to be joking! didn't many leave the
military because of Clinton?
-sm
>
> "I believe we are absolutely on the brink of
> failure. We are looking into
> the abyss."
> General Joseph Hoar, the former head of the Marine
> Corps
>
> "In the lead-up to the Iraq war, and its later
> conduct,I saw at a minimum,
> true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility,
> at worst, lying,
> incompetence and corruption."
> Retired Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni, head of
> Central Command,
> President Bush's personal emissary to the Middle
> East
>
> Washington Post quoted an unnamed senior General at
> the Pentagon as saying,
> " the current OSD (Office of the Secretary of
> Defense) refused to listen or
> adhere to military advice."
>
> The Post also quoted an unnamed general as saying,
> "Like a lot of senior
> Army guys I'm quite angry" with Rumsfeld and the
> rest of the Bush
> Administration. He listed two reasons. "I think they
> are going to break the
> Army," he said, adding that what really incites him
> is "I don't think they
> care."
>
>
> At 04:49 PM 7/1/04, Sam the Dittohead wrote:
> >Sorry, I forgot my quote.
> >
> >"We have an entire political party which is engaged
> in
> >an effort to make sure we lose this war so that
> they
> >win the White House, and I am not mincing words.
> They
> >are doing everything they can to see that our
> effort
> >to win this is defeated, because it's Bush leading
> >it." -Rush
>
>
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