What you are not acknowledging is that the serving commanders, by law, cannot criticize Bush's strategy. They are not _allowed_ to give us their opinion. Their only comment can be "yes, sir", and their public statements must be in line with the policy.
They can resign and then comment, but not the other way around. On 1/10/07, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He is going against some, not all. Gen. Odinero and Gen. Petreus (sp) are > behind this. Gen Petreus is the arriving ground commander and the former > the > outgoing ground commander. Seems that they would have a good picture of > what > is happening since they are "boots on the ground" as opposed to the JCS > who > are sitting in the Pentagon. Also, the WP reports this: > > 'The Joint Chiefs came to accept Bush's wishes, especially after new > Defense > Secretary Robert M. Gates traveled to Iraq last month with the Joint > Chiefs > chairman, Gen. Peter Pace, said a U.S. official familiar with the trip. > Gates met with Maliki, who laid out more details about the Iraqi plan for > Baghdad. ' > > "That gave them enough to define a mission and its objectives," the > official > said. "They came back satisfied." > If you all remember, Gen Shenseki, who was the CJCS back at the begining > of > the war opposed Rummy the Dummy and said that he was not sending enough > troops. It is just too bad that Rummy did not listen to him, perhaps they > would still have a job (Rummy fired the General shortly after his comments > - > wait, the General "retired"). But the fact is not ALL of the generals > opppose the increase and it seems that the Generals riding desks at the > Pentagon are warming up to the idea. But you all have to remember, the JCS > really have no say in war matters. That is not their job so it does not > really matter what they think. If they want a say in the matter, they need > to get re-assigned to the theater and then they can talk. Mr. Gates pretty > much brought Gen. Pace along as a courtesy really. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224269 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
