Some Truth. WP: Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy

[fearnobush]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11227-2004May8.html>

From the article:

Some officers say the place to begin restructuring U.S. policy is by ousting Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, whom they see as responsible for a series of strategic and tactical blunders over the past year. Several of those interviewed said a profound anger is building within the Army at Rumsfeld and those around him.

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Tolerance of the situation in Iraq also appears to be declining within the U.S. military. Especially among career Army officers, an extraordinary anger is building at Rumsfeld and his top advisers.

"Like a lot of senior Army guys, I'm quite angry" with Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush administration, the young general said. He listed two reasons. "One is, I think they are going to break the Army." But what really incites him, he said, is, "I don't think they care."

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One Pentagon consultant said that officials with whom he works on Iraq policy continue to put on a happy face publicly, but privately are grim about the situation in Baghdad.

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Asked about such antagonism, Wolfowitz said, "I wish they'd have the -- whatever it takes -- to come tell me to my face."

When it comes to discussions of the administration's Iraq policy, he said, "It's 'Dead Man Walking.' "

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[Gingersnap]

1. That POS

"tell me to my face," whatta He-man that Wolfowitz. Easy to mock the bravery of the soldiers from safe inside your comfy office, huh chickenhawk. They're showing respect and hoping that pressue will remove Rummy without them having to drag the Army into the mudslinging.

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2. Several of them DID tell him to his face...

...and each and every one of them were either fired, or asked to 'retire'.