From: word_chemist@hotmail.com
"Bayle" wrote in message
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> Army Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack
> Army Maj. Gen. John Riggs
> Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste
> Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold
> Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni
> Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton
>
> all retired, called for ...
>
> Who cares what they called for? They waited until they retired, fat
> dumb and happy.
>
> But the more important question to ask these professional soldiers (if
> such amateurs can be called professionals - lacking both a sense of
> duty and honor) is this: What war have they won?
>
> All that paraphenalia they wear on their chests. What is it for?
> Panama? Grenada? The half-assed job Colin and the others did in Saddam
> I?
>
> They get asked to do a tough job - and you would think the one thing
> the left would agree is that we want civilian control of the military -
> and these weasels screw it up and then, from the safety of retirement,
> whine about it.
>
> Literally they are losers. When the going got tough they bugged out.
> Bob Dylan soldiers "the warriors whose strength is not to fight."
>
> God is this country screwed. An intelligence agency that is totally
> clueless and gutless. (See the Thomas Powers article in the recent NYRB
> for this) And a military filled with fools like these guys. Ever wonder
> why most of the guys you see who make sense are often Colonels. Because
> to make General you have to have your nose so far up the ass of your
> superiors that any one with any guts often gets out or isn't promoted.
> I've seen the desk jockey test-takers. Never follow em if your life
> depended on it though.
>
> You wonder where we got Grant. Just lucky. Of course he was running a
> grocery store IIRC.
>
Have you ever seen 'Patton', Bayle? I pictured you saying all that with a
huge stars and stripes behind you ;O)
ROBBIE
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