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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 05:00 AM
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25. There are a whole bunch of honest generals who got retired early for not going along with Rummy....
Edited on Wed Jul-16-08 05:01 AM by Hekate
Generals Taguba and Shinseki are only two. Then there's General Wes Clark, who was brilliant in the Kosovo War as Supreme Allied Commander.

President Obama should consider bringing some of the fired generals back, if they can be persuaded to return to uniform, rather than sticking with Petraeus.

Hekate

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  - Obama would face tough decision on whether to retain Gen. Petraeus babylonsister  Jul-14-08 07:44 PM   #0 
  - Get Rid of Petraeus and replace him with one of the Fired or  MadMaddie   Jul-14-08 07:47 PM   #1 
  - Good solution.  gateley   Jul-14-08 07:49 PM   #5 
  - Put the band back together! Starting with Colin Powell. n/t  IanDB1   Jul-14-08 07:56 PM   #7 
  - Eric Shinseki  rpannier   Jul-14-08 07:57 PM   #8 
  - It would be a demotion for Shinseki to take over CENTCOM.  tabasco   Jul-14-08 08:13 PM   #11 
     - Shinseki was not Chairman of the JCS.  wmbrew0206   Jul-15-08 07:41 AM   #15 
  - Great idea.  tabasco   Jul-14-08 08:10 PM   #10 
  - Yeah, that ought to inspire a lot of our two and three star generals.  wmbrew0206   Jul-16-08 06:33 AM   #26 
  - Boy, that's interesting. Never even thought of that.  gateley   Jul-14-08 07:47 PM   #2 
  - This is simple  bluestateguy   Jul-14-08 07:48 PM   #3 
  - Why Would He Want To Boot Petraeus?  MannyGoldstein   Jul-14-08 07:48 PM   #4 
  - He also has lied for this admin., lipstick on a pig. I remember  babylonsister   Jul-14-08 07:53 PM   #6 
  - Replacing military commanders for political expediency = Bad Idea.  cherokeeprogressive   Jul-14-08 08:07 PM   #9 
  - Replacing military commanders for lack of values = good idea.  tabasco   Jul-15-08 08:01 PM   #19 
  - He lied before Congress. Last I checked, that was considered perjury  Paint It Black   Jul-14-08 09:30 PM   #12 
  - Maybe because he's a SHILL, appointed by Bush to make Bush look better?  Hoof Hearted   Jul-14-08 10:39 PM   #14 
  - what's tough? he's a political hack  tishaLA   Jul-14-08 10:32 PM   #13 
  - Absolutely Not.  wmbrew0206   Jul-15-08 07:54 AM   #16 
  - Wtf are you talking about?  tabasco   Jul-15-08 08:15 PM   #20 
     - Dude, get a clue  wmbrew0206   Jul-15-08 09:59 PM   #24 
  - The question is what are Roxana Tiron's qualifications on the issue?  LiberalFighter   Jul-15-08 08:43 AM   #17 
  - Clearly she doesn't understand the issue that well since she can't even get her facts stragiht  wmbrew0206   Jul-15-08 08:56 AM   #18 
  - Give him (Petraeus) a week to file his withdrawal plan  kenny blankenship   Jul-15-08 08:22 PM   #21 
  - reading that article was a complete waste of time  madrchsod   Jul-15-08 09:20 PM   #22 
  - "quelled insurgent violence" - yet another lie from the media.  Zhade   Jul-15-08 09:21 PM   #23 
  - There are a whole bunch of honest generals who got retired early for not going along with Rummy....  Hekate   Jul-16-08 05:00 AM   #25 
  - In Clark's case  Thothmes   Jul-16-08 08:01 AM   #27 
  - Thothmes is right, Clark was relieved by Cohen and Shelton, not Rumsfeld  wmbrew0206   Jul-16-08 09:23 AM   #28 
     - Sorry I mis-spoke. I knew Clark left before that. You're right about not bringing people back...  Hekate   Jul-16-08 12:23 PM   #29 
        - I agree it is a waste. I'd like to see a lot of them run for Congress  wmbrew0206   Jul-16-08 12:37 PM   #31 
  - This is a no brainer! Can that ass kissing Petraeus!  IndianaGreen   Jul-16-08 12:24 PM   #30 
  - BushCo has politicized the military and Obama won't tolerate that.  AtomicKitten   Jul-16-08 12:40 PM   #32 
  - There's more to the article.....Obama seems to support Petraeus  Baclava   Jul-16-08 01:21 PM   #33 
 

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