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

To: JDN who wrote (736646)	4/13/2006 2:19:44 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

How many times have you heard the Sec Dev? What is your impression? Now many good men as best you can judge have had nothing but the highest praise of the Sec Dev. I cannot play by my rules so I resign and attack anothers character. I conclude such public conduct as is reported perfectly identifies a skank coming out of the closet. If you know the folks, skank identification is quite easy. We are currently in an war and extreme care should be shown in attacking the chain of command. That's the first rule to ignore in skank school.

To: JDN who wrote (736646)	4/13/2006 3:44:30 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The same situations existed when it became apparent that horses needed to be replaced with tanks, and that aircraft could attach navel vessels. George Marshall performed a miracle that actually got the military ready to fight the Axis powers. It wasn't easy because Congress was very isolationist-and wanted to appropriate virtually zero. Most of the early 20th century generals eventually bit the dust to be replaced by a new generation. It's rare for an old general to believe in new ideas. One of the historic exceptions was George Patton, who built the American armor-centered combined-arms tactics for armored and armored-infantry divisions (that are woefully obsolete today-but supported by all these generals you see biting the dust under Rumsfeld.) Military reform is driven by visionaries like Marshall and Rumsfeld, and are usually accomplished over the squealing of a retarded or self-interested media, and the bitter contempt of over-the-hill generals who have already been run off. The ALTERNATIVE is that you lose a war, and rebuild along modern lines, if you ever get rid of the occupier...

To: JDN who wrote (736646)	4/13/2006 3:52:06 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Retired" Generals 2: Another source of the massive slaughter of old generals' careers today is that so many of them are TAINTED by having served under Clinton instead of quitting and blowing the whistle on him and his faggy little administration. CYBERKEN is not suggesting that the entire general staff should have quit. But the ones you see playing the media game against Bush were the "political" generals who tried to hitch their star to William the Bastard BECAUSE he was the president du jure. Hazards of the game, as it has been for 5,000 years...