Someone in LBN said JK was on Talk of the Nation

[ginnyinWI]

I missed it, but the archive is supposed to be up at 6 p.m. Eastern.

Did anyone here catch it?

[fedupinBushcountry]

1. I missed it also

but here is the link where you listen at 6 p.m. today.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5361892

[ProSense]

4. I just listened.

It was great. The Senator got pretty hot at toward the end of the interview talking about Rummy's screw up.

[ginnyinWI]

5. hot?

hot as in :nuke:, or hot as in :evilgrin: ?

lol, just kidding. Going to listen to it now. :)

[ProSense]

8. In JK's case

twice would be redundant! :9

[sandrakae]

2. Link please.

[_dynamicdems]

3. I just listened to this...the Senator sure sounded angry.

Must have had his Wheaties today. He was pretty fiesty. That's the closest to a rant I've ever heard from him!

[ginnyinWI]

6. he was angry (in his controlled way)

and rightly so! I always like it when he talks about truth. "Telling the truth is always worth it; you have to tell the truth." Without that, everything else fails.

[sandnsea]

7. Oooh, that was good

Yes he did get mad at the end, good for him. I also like what he said about Vietnam, he's getting pro-active with the testimony and what he's done for vets. That's the exact right approach.

[MH1]

9. Positive dailykos diary on this

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/25/211826/024

by a poster I don't recognize.

Worth a look and a recommend?

[karynnj]

10. Did that

[_dynamicdems]

11. Transcript at Prairie Weather (incl. interviews w/Generals)

4/25/06: NPR: "Talk of the Nation": The generals and Rumsfeld's leadership; John Kerry on Rumsfeld and dissent

Neal Conan: Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, has come under fire from retired US generals who demand his departure for what they call "broad failures in Iraq." Secretary Rumsfeld has heard calls for his head before, notably after the ghastly images from Abu Ghraib came to light a couple of years ago. But the generals present a different indictment. "Arrogant," "hubris," "micromanagement," "incompetence," "refusal to admit strategic and operational errors," and "refusal to accept sound military advice when it was offered." The President has defended his Secretary and, after the charges surfaced, a second group of generals emerged to support Secretary Rumsfeld and attack his critics as opponents of military transformation and, in some cases, as officers trying to deflect blame from their own mistakes. Beyond the substance of the case, many in uniform and out question the circumstances. It is highly unusual for even retired military officers to criticize civilian leadership in public, especially in time of war. The issue is not dissent, per se, but the basic constitutional principle that places the military firmly under the control of civilians. We'll talk with one of Secretary Rumsfeld's critics. Later in the program, Senator John Kerry joins us on the thirty-fifty anniversary of his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the war in Vietnam... We begin with retired Major General John Batiste, a West Point graduate who retired last year after 31 years in the Army. He commanded the Army's 1st Infantry Division in Iraq and in Kosovo. He's now president of Klein Steel Services. General, nice to have you on the program today!

Complete transcript:
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scribe/2006/04/42506_npr_talk_.html