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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KonKilo who wrote (347964)	1/26/2003 10:53:19 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Well your proffer is an attack on character. McClellan was simply stupid. Your proffer shows how stupid you think. Winning a war is the biggest political capitol one can have. McLellan was just another process retard like mr. bill. Mr. bill added character retard to that mix.

To: KonKilo who wrote (347964)	1/26/2003 12:25:10 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I suspect that he chose not to fight any harder than he did out of a sense that by not causing many casualties on either side, he would not make as many hardened enemies and thus could advance his political ambitions. LOL! Now THAT'S a nasty attack! I had always assumed he was simply bureaucratic and stupid. The 1860's version of the American Vietnam mistake. McClellan also had political aspirations And I think that's why he was so critical of Lincoln. He always acted as if and assumed he should be running the war and the country. Thank whatever gods there may be that that was not the case. Lincoln and Grant seem to be the only men in that war that figured out where the unbeatable strength of the Union lay: greater manpower and far greater productive capacity. Generalship was all on the Southern side. But once Grant became the honcho General and started using those strengths, the South started retreating and never stopped.