Feith's op-ed in the Post gets a last(?) shot off at Tommy Franks, who called him something like "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet".
Rumsfeld has been attacked for insisting that troop levels for the Iraq operation be kept low, supposedly out of ideology and contrary to the advice of the military. What I saw, however, was that Rumsfeld questioned standard military recommendations for "overwhelming force." He asked if such force was necessary for the mission. ...
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But Rumsfeld never told Gen. John Abizaid or Gen. Tommy Franks that U.S. Central Command could not have the number of troops that the commanders deemed necessary. ... If other generals are unhappy with the troop levels in Iraq, the problem is not that they failed to persuade Rumsfeld, but that they failed to persuade Abizaid or Franks.
Yeah, next time someone tells you that these chickenhawk chickenshits support the Military, reread Feith's words. His body-slam of the soldiers who are stuck in his fucking war in Iraq is amazingly bold and self-serving.
For anyone to even begin to believe that a man who said "You go to war with the Army you have" is either competant or in-touch with the forces he's responsible for especially in war of choice he advocated, is pretty lame, a word that describes Mr. Feith to a "T".
posted by Jo Fish on 11.13.06 at 01:39 AM
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Reading a column where Ken Adelman was trashing his former friend....Rumsfeld and he mentioned that Rummy owns five (5) homes: Chicago,Taos,Las Vegas,Maryland and the other escapes me...Can't help but think of some Marine families in So. Calif on food stamps while their husband are in L2R....War is business...and business is good........
posted by: doug on 11.13.06 at 06:58 AM [permalink]
In a way Feith's not to blame -- Rumsfeld taught him and the other neocon thugs they could humiliate and intimidate the senior officers of the military and not pay a price for it.
The generation of senior officers in now were junior officers 35 years ago when the military in general and the Army in particular got left holding the bag for our little SE Asian adventure. They've all been making noises ever since of "Never again".
Well, looks like when the rubber met the road, they suddenly forgot what it was like to be an 0-1, an 0-2 or an 0-3 leading troops with inadequate gear in a no -win guerrilla war in which every day is just another excuse to get attrited for no good reason.
This isn't only their fault -- the rot starts at the head, etc., etc. Besides, there's going to plenty of blame to go around for what they allowed to happen.
posted by: fbg46 on 11.13.06 at 02:01 PM [permalink]
