The Buck Stops Where?
On Wednesday President Bush vowed to keep Don Rumsfeld in place till the end of his term because of the "fantastic job" he was doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and in "overhauling the military. "Your doing a hell of a job Rummy."
On Thurday Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, senior US military office in Iraq 2003-04 stated that he was forced to retire from the army after 33 years because "he was not offered another position in a three-star or four-star command" and that he "had become an embarrassment to the top brass."
As our Republican Majority Leader John Boehner said yesterday on TV--don't blame Rummy--blame the generals in Iraq. Seems to me the chain of command goes right through the Pentagon to the White House. Our President has always hid behind the fiction by claiming that the generals have not requested more troops for Iraq. Now that it is apparent that more troops are needed the Generals have requested more troops, but the administration has decided that the request should be for 100,000 more Iraqis.
Stay tuned--we will be getting a new story from the administration as soon as the election is over. A good start would be to admit that our Secretary of Defense is both responsible and that he has been wrong. Our military is a mess and we need to substantially increase its size and its capability. This crowd has left us unable to stand up to Iran, Syria, Korea, nuch less to win in Iraq or Afghanistan. It will take years to rebuild our military so that we are capable of fighting and winning wars in the 21st Century. Place the blame where it belongs-- the SecDef and POTUS.
On Thurday Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, senior US military office in Iraq 2003-04 stated that he was forced to retire from the army after 33 years because "he was not offered another position in a three-star or four-star command" and that he "had become an embarrassment to the top brass."
As our Republican Majority Leader John Boehner said yesterday on TV--don't blame Rummy--blame the generals in Iraq. Seems to me the chain of command goes right through the Pentagon to the White House. Our President has always hid behind the fiction by claiming that the generals have not requested more troops for Iraq. Now that it is apparent that more troops are needed the Generals have requested more troops, but the administration has decided that the request should be for 100,000 more Iraqis.
Stay tuned--we will be getting a new story from the administration as soon as the election is over. A good start would be to admit that our Secretary of Defense is both responsible and that he has been wrong. Our military is a mess and we need to substantially increase its size and its capability. This crowd has left us unable to stand up to Iran, Syria, Korea, nuch less to win in Iraq or Afghanistan. It will take years to rebuild our military so that we are capable of fighting and winning wars in the 21st Century. Place the blame where it belongs-- the SecDef and POTUS.
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