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To: loantech who wrote (19825)	11/2/2009 9:22:30 PM
From: Zincman	Respond to of 49953

Man oh man... This whole thing stinks.

To: loantech who wrote (19825)	11/2/2009 11:34:50 PM
From: shakes	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49953

LT, One of these days America is going to wake up to the fact that most of those, square-jawed, steeley-eyed generals are simply politicos in a gov't issued suits-of-a-different color who are in the main obsessed with power and the fat, fat life they've carved out for themselves.... Westmoreland is the prototype...handsome, intense,completely self-assured, dumb as a rock...witness Tet '68 when he got suckered into having over half of all the US manuver battalions up in I Corps (while the VC pillaged the rest of the country) because he was scared shitless about losing Khe Sahn. There are few, very few exceptions..like Omar Bradley; Eisenhower when he finally called bullshit on the Military-Industrial complex. McChrystal co-signed the lies piling up after Tillman's death. If you have any doubt, read Jon Krukauer's "Where Men Win Glory". Shakes Viet Nam 67-68