Ret. Gen. Myers: criticizing Rumsfeld inappropriate. Clark disagrees.

[Eugene]

Rumsfeld critics off base: ex-military chief

Reuters
Saturday, April 15, 2006; 3:40 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calls from a growing number of retired US generals
for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign over his handling of the Iraq war
are inappropriate, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers said
on Saturday.

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"I don't think it's our place in the military either in uniform or when you retire
to make those judgments. That's not the military's role. They certainly can.
It's their right to do that, I just think it's inappropriate," Myers told Fox News.

Clark, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, disagreed with Myers.

"It's more than appropriate, it's their responsibility," he told Fox news. "I believe
Rumsfeld hasn't done an adequate job. He should go."

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500649.html

[Stuckinthebush]

1. Who did he say this to???

Oh right....FOX news.

That immediately disqualifies his comments as anything other than partisan idiocy.

[sakabatou]

2. Hey, Myers

STFU.

[wiley]

3. General Manners?

Rumsfeld would flog him. Wes Clark is such a winner.

[Montagnard]

4. Meyers was Rumesfeld chief kiss ass

as Joint Chief.

[OregonBlue]

5. Where was Myers during most of the battles? As I recall almost

every news conference he held was from Florida. He spent almost no time in Iraq, no wonder he didn't know what the commanders on the ground were saying.

[hailmary]

6. if only we had just let have the nomination in the first place then he'd

be the president and we'd have already made the reverse course that we need to make so badly.

[newyawker99]

22. Hi hailmary!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[xray s]

7. Cheney is warming Myers board seat at Halliburton

He is going to sit right next to Tony Blair. It'll be fabulous.

[spanone]

8. Shocked, I'll tell ya, Shocked. Myers is like Rummy's dummy.

[NJ Democrats]

9. Myers, your a dumb ass

Of course its appropritate.

[tabasco]

10. What is really off-base is Myers lack of moral courage,

his traitorous loyalty to the military-industrial robber barons, and his disrespect for democratic institutions.

[hang a left]

14. And let us not forget his complicity in 9-11

[0rganism]

11. Hmm, can we count Clark on the list of anti-Rumsfeld generals?

On the one hand, he's a fairly recently retired SACEur, which certainly seems to qualify him. On the other, he is a prominent Democrat (whether some on this board care to acknowledge it or not), and can hardly be considered non-partisan at this point. Hell, he likely thinks the entire bush administration should be replaced including bush, and Rummy is but a subset of that organization.

[Adelante]

17. Definitely

In 2003 he said the first thing he would do as president is fire Rumsfeld. Too late now for that, but count him we can. We should make it very, very known that the Dems had a General out there years ago on this.

[LynnTheDem]

12. "it's their responsibility"

It's their DUTY.

Thank you, General Clark.

[saltpoint]

13. I think I'll take General Clark's take on my country over General Myers'.

[PurpleChez]

15. It is not appropriate for anyone to enable this criminal regime.

[FrenchieCat]

16. If there was anymore Poo on Myer's lips.....

they could flush is ass down the toilet.

Guess Gen. Meyers will get a medal now, and Gen. Clark will be called a "partisan hack"! A truly Orwelian scene straight out of our current reality!

[biscotti]

18. I will never know

how this little mealy mouthed weasel ever made past boot camp.

[sweetheart]

19. we have all been cheated

out of our right to a peaceful bountiful future
by a felonious gang of perverts amongst them rumsfeld,
and now honourable men who served the constitution
out to the iraqis, and all the others, are cheated too.

They have a right to speak out their heart's
known opportunity cost for hiring an incompetent.

[Adelante]

20. If anybody sees a transcript

Please post in this thread. I don't get Fox and I would like to read it. Thanks.

[Gloria]

21. Clark went further than that...he said he ran for President to get

Bush out of office because of the harm he was doing to the country. He said that the whole mess is the responsiblity of the President--Bush--not just Rumsfeld.l

[Donna Zen]

23. That General Clark

Always finds just the right words.

[BuyingThyme]

24. Myers is one of the Nazis who attacked us on 09/11/01.

[genie_weenie]

25. So... Let me get this straight

It's inappropriate to "just follow orders" which are unlawful even * admitted this the Eve of Destruction 3 years ago.

But it's also inappropriate to call out those giving the unlawful orders?

Am I missing something? Oh, sorry I forget propaganda is to be used against the enemies of the Regime (i.e. The American People).

[w8liftinglady]

26. Don't forget-Myers owes bush BIGTIME

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/j-myers-bio.html
His daughter,Julie-Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
She is married to chertoff's chief of staff

[LynnTheDem]

27. Rumsfeld has endangered ALL Americans, especially our troops. FACT.

Rumsfeld personally supervised torture, says Human Rights Watch

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=14e2949c0884ff3a

But hey, they're all FUNGIBLE anyways eh rummy?

[Dinger]

28. Clark Didn't Mince Words . . . He Never Does

:patriot: