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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: PartyTime who wrote (4272)2/27/2004 6:51:08 PM
From: John Sladek  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
ATTACK OF THE CHICKEN-HAWKS How come the military is antiwar, and the policy wonks want blood? It's very simple….

August 2, 2002

Forget the Senate hearings on Iraq, ignore Congress, and never mind our laptop bombardiers. How many of these guys have ever been anywhere near a battlefield? Instead, listen to what the US military is saying about the prospect of Gulf War II….

Today's [August 1] Washington Post reports "an increasingly contentious debate … within the Bush administration" over the Iraq question, with the divide between gung-ho civilian leaders and top military officers who smell a rat:

"Much of the senior uniformed military, with the notable exception of some top Air Force and Marine generals, opposes going to war anytime soon, a stance that is provoking frustration among civilian officials in the Pentagon and in the White House."

The Post paints the same picture that we've been drawing here on Antiwar.com for the past few weeks: it's Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz versus Colin Powell and the Pentagon. Defense secretary Rumsfeld is cited as saying: "The discussions that take place, the process that's been established, have been working as well as I have ever seen," but Capitol Hill Blue portrays a qualitative escalation in the war of the Policy Wonks and the Generals:

"The differences over Iraq mark the sharpest disagreements among senior staff since the Bush administration took office with the Cheney and Rumsfeld calling those who oppose military actions 'cowards.'"

"'It's getting nasty,' says one White House source. 'Meetings over Iraq now turn into shouting matches.'"

[Full Story at: antiwar.com ]
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