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To: michael97123 who wrote (153923)12/13/2004 7:06:42 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
TWF,
You can criticise our policy all you want. YOu can criticise our leaders all you want.


Actually why they (like other politicians) deserve criticism for some of their actions, I've been spending most of my time here lately defending them from the type of wild attacks that you are railing against.

Tim



To: michael97123 who wrote (153923)12/14/2004 1:51:09 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Mike and Neocon, if all criticism of our current policy leaders can be turned on its head and considered political, I wonder what Schwarzkopf is thinking.

msnbc.msn.com

"Schwarzkopf, interviewed on MSNBC-TV’s “Hardball,” chided Rumsfeld for his reply to a soldier in Kuwait over the lack of armor on many military vehicles used in Iraq.

“I was very, very disappointed — no, let me put it stronger — I was angry by the words of the secretary of defense when he laid it all on the Army, as if he, as the secretary of defense, didn’t have anything to do with the Army and the Army was over there doing it themselves, screwing up,” Schwarzkopf said.

Schwarzkopf, a registered independent who campaigned for Bush in the last two presidential elections, has previously criticized Rumsfeld on several occasions as arrogant and out of touch with troops on the ground.......
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