Wha wha WHAAAAAA? "Why didn't the generals speak up sooner?"

[Atman]

On Lou Dobbs. That is how Barbara Starr intro'd the piece about the resigning generals. As if it is the generals' fault. and if they'd just have spoken up sooner, maybe everything would be hunky dory.

Excuse me while my head exlodes.

[babylonsister]

1. Ridiculous of her; can you say pension, which they've all worked

hard for?:banghead:

[rzemanfl]

4. Can you say Iran? Pensions are useless to the dead. n/t

[TahitiNut]

2. So, does that mean it's the generals' faults for not speaking up enough?

In other words, Rummy is blameless for his own policies and browbeating the military if they took it and didn't speak up? Only a shit-for-brains FReeper (or addle-headed vigilante) would buy that illogical vomit.

[JuniperLea]

11. Yep...

It's like telling your wife, how dare you look through my wallet and find a hot chick's phone number... or a kid to his mom... how dare you search my dresser and find those hits of acid... or Scottie McMoonface... how dare you report the truth!

[TahitiNut]

16. It's an "Act of God" (since God didn't say 'No!' loud enough, I guess.)

I mean... if we're going to use their logic to shift blame, why not go for the gold? :dunce:

[JuniperLea]

18. Brilliant!

Especially since acts of God generally render many types of insurance null and void;)


Oh.Good.God... the ability to think creatively like a RWNut is very unsettling!

:p

[faithnotgreed]

3. if your head hasnt exploded yet can you say whether she answered her ?

or was it more an accusation



thanks atman
sorry about your head.... watching tv will do that

[Zen Democrat]

5. Are they questioning why Colin Powell led us war against his will?

There's no doubt in my mind that if Colin Powell had resigned and spoken out instead of spreading lies with his U.N. appearance, there wouldn't have been an American invasion of Iraq. Public opinion for the war turned the day Powell gave it the okay.

Yet he's considered an "honorable" man.

[electropop]

6. Perhaps because Bushitler fired every General who spoke up?

[LoKnLoD]

7. I saw

Peter Pace or whatever the name of Bush's puppet general's is saying the same thing, new talking point I guess. I was like General Shinseky (sp?) hello.. forget about him asswipe? he spoke up and got canned.

[Marr]

8. They do shoulder a good deal of the blame.

There were generals who stood up (and were promptly fired and smeared for committing First Degree Honesty), but the military leadership has mostly just stood by and allowed the Bush Administration to commit all sorts of crimes, from prison torture to everything else- helping them cover it up all along the way.

[spanone]

9. Peter Pace dismayed. Yea, I bet he is. Mutiny on the Bounty.

[lovuian]

10. This is really horrible losing the generals just is obvious

that there is a rebellion among the generals this is obvious that Bush & Cheney are bad news!!!

[killbotfactory]

12. you mean the ones that said what a clusterfuck Iraq would be if we invaded

Back in the early nineties?

Oh wait, that was before the media got a hard on for war.

[SoCalDem]

13. Au contraire.. That's WHEN they fell in love with war

CNN 24/7 ...That's where Wolfie earned his "stripes"..remember the "Scud Stud"??

GW1 is partly respionsible for the tabloid war-loving media we have today.. The media ownership saw that they COULD get brazillions of eyeballs glued to news 24-7

[demosincebirth]

14. Good example of why Generals don't contradict the Commander in Chief...

is when Truman fired Gen. MacArthur

[Jacobin]

15. No better than politicians, is what that means

[Mz Pip]

17. Shinshecki did

He was fired. Clark did. He was ridiculed. Zinni did.

The administration didn't listen then and they won't listen now.

Mz Pip
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