The Generals...I don't Remember Anything like this for VietNam.

[spanone]

Is this Unprecendented???? To have 6 Generals come out and call for the resignation of the sitting Secretary of Defense?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. I'll give Dumbsfeld this.... he did offer to resign on his own...

apparrently even he can see the writing on the wall... but the brilliant shrub put a damper on it.... prolly wouldn't like the implications of such a resignation for the team.

[WiseButAngrySara]

2. I think it is historical, and the question was brought up but not fully

solved, on another post. Rummy himself alluded to it , saying that the general's dissent was 'historical,' but 6 at once? I seriously doubt that has happened before.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. I've never heard of anything like this in this history of the US military.

[bobbieinok]

4. during Vietnam several retired generals opposed the war.....I don't

remember that they said anything about the sec of defense

[villager]

6. they never called for McNamara or Schlesinger to step down...

at least, not to my recollection either. This does seem to be unprecedented... and if we had a less supine press, would probably be a bigger deal...

[spanone]

7. Here's an interesting piece from NYTimes.

They tell of each General, their service and their quotes on the war.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/04/14/washington/20060414_MILITARY_GRAPHIC.html

[DLnyc]

12. "My sincere view is that the commitment of our forces to this fight was

done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions--or bury the resluts."

--Lt. Gen Gregory Newbold

nicely put.

Support Our Troops--Kick Rummy's Sorry Ass The Hell Out!

(and * and dead-eye and kindasleezy and . . .)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Never heard a dissenting peep out of a general, retired or otherwise,

about the SECDEF. Nobody asked for the resignation of McNamara (though maybe they should have). This really is a much bigger fuckup than even Vietnam was, though at the time I couldn't have imagined that would ever happen.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Clark Clifford, a member of Johnson's own cabinet, came out against the war

Now there is a real American hero.

Don

[bklyncowgirl]

9. Alot of those guys served in Vietnam.

They don't want to see history repeat itself.

[HereSince1628]

11. They also don't want to see the military wrecked.

Rumsfeld isn't just losing the war in Iraq, the generals see him as destroying the military.

[acmejack]

10. Totally.

I can think of nothing even vaguely resembling this in our history.