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- quakerorts, on 03/06/2008, -15/+99Jesus ***** Christ! Bush seems determined to leave the world in flaming ruin when he leaves office.
- Insightful, on 03/06/2008, -5/+61Not surprising at all. Remember the highly respected General Eric Shinseki, 1st Asian American as a 4 star general, former Army Chief of Staff (highest ranking US Army officer) and creator of the Stryker Interim-Force Brigade Combat Teams.
Five years ago in response to Sen. Levin's question on troop requirement, he made the following prescient statement: "I would say that what's been mobilized to this point -- something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required. We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems. And so it takes a significant ground- force presence."
For that he was publicly rebuked by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Shinseki retired unceremoniously.
There is a high career cost for a senior military officer to contradict his or her politically appointed civilian commander. I am not sure if I can do it but Shinseki made a brave choice. I hope Fallon will make his stand as well. - Zippo, on 03/06/2008, -3/+55***** hell, January 2009 can't come soon enough.
- SheilaNoya, on 03/06/2008, -8/+53Bush has already filled many of the top military positions with evangelical generals. General Casey, the current Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, is one of them. When Rumsfeld was coming under scrutiny, General Casey replied, "I have complete faith in Donald Rumsfeld. God has a hand in all of his decisions."
Gee - Who knew that God would turn out to be such a bad military strategist. - principle, on 03/06/2008, -4/+44The damage done by Bush to the military command will take many decades to repair.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -5/+34their God is money.
- Dumbledorito, on 03/06/2008, -5/+31"I feel like George Bush can bring about the Biblical Apocolype. I don't mean the 'Road Warrior, there's no gas apocalypse,' or the 'Jerry Bruckheimer, the weather's going crazy apocolypse.' I mean the 'Revelation of St. John, demons coming out of the ocean, seven headed beast, all that stuff, [apocolypse].' Because, here's the thing, I don't think Bush wants to be President. I think he wants to be The Last President!"
- Patton Oswalt - Infidelcastr0, on 03/06/2008, -4/+28Why do I have a feeling bush will declare a state of emergency or something when his term ends and attempt to stay in power.
- TrevaLVF, on 03/06/2008, -5/+27Your orgasm over such a morbid possibility is obvious and nauseating.
- yeti22, on 03/06/2008, -2/+23...and the intelligence community, and the justice department, and ...
- FleetAdmiral, on 03/06/2008, -2/+23They can not possibly do more to destroy Bush's Legacy then he did himself.
- billyjack1958, on 03/06/2008, -0/+17If you are so pro-war, why aren't you over there?? Do you have children? Are they in our military? Probably not. It is disgusting to me that most of the people who are pro-war have no concept of the reality of it and have never served their country in the military. I have 4 family members in the military and you make me sick.
- Waiting2awake, on 03/06/2008, -4/+20Bush is going to leave - but the philosophy that got the US into this mess isn't going to leave. That is kinda the problem. All hail the new boss, same as the last boss.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -5/+19The right wingers are looking to Iran for more of their "war porn" collection.
They have been using the Abu Graib and Iraq pics for so long they can't get it up to them anymore.
They need some fresh pics of murdered innocents to get off.
What other possible reason could they cheer for war and human misery?
Oh, maybe oil.
Or religious intolerance. - SOS84, on 03/06/2008, -1/+15How many generals and other military leaders have been fired or forced to resign/retire do to disagreements with the Village Idiot? How many have retired in protest?
- doza89, on 03/06/2008, -3/+16god i hate bush
- Yrnn, on 03/06/2008, -1/+13I think you're confused.
He's a pro-"Iran war" general.
Not a pro-Iran "war general". - BadseedJR, on 03/06/2008, -0/+12He's replacing key officials with his yes-men. I'm not excited to see where this goes... There's obviously some ulterior motive here.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -0/+11january 20th
- swrostmore, on 03/06/2008, -4/+15head = buried in sand
- RetlawST, on 03/06/2008, -0/+11Thanks, don't want to get ahead of myself, now, do I? ::marks calender::
- cohortq, on 03/06/2008, -1/+12He was also right about Iraq you *****.
- RetlawST, on 03/06/2008, -0/+11I've already told my friends and family that the very second January 2nd rolls around, if Bush is not out of the Whitehouse, I will get into my car that night and be it by myself, or with an army of people like me, will remove him forcibly.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+13Fallon is a good guy from what I've read. It would be a huge shame if he were replaced. Plus he shows just how far an NFO can go!
- pintomp3, on 03/06/2008, -1/+11i guess we should thank hillary for voting for the kyle/lieberman bill giving bush permission to start another war. and mccain is only to happy to bomb bomb bomb iran. ***** neocon war mongers.
- ispellkonfusion, on 03/06/2008, -6/+15Don't wait until the end of his administration. IMPEACH BUSH NOW!
- Waiting2awake, on 03/06/2008, -4/+13If he mentioned Allah - what would your reaction be? Shouldn't it be the same?
- pintomp3, on 03/06/2008, -0/+8perhaps you misread it. it's not a war general who is pro iran. it's a general who is pro iran war. neither is good, but the latter is far worse.
- AnarkeIncarnate, on 03/06/2008, -2/+10You act as though the voice is only important when it goes with the crowd. How is a vote for what you believe a wasted vote? Just because he won't win does not mean it will be wasted. My vote will be for Ron Paul as well, even if it is written in. It will be counted and noted. I will have been heard.
- Gamer4Lyfe, on 03/06/2008, -1/+8You know what? This does not surprise me in the least, we have got to have the stupidest most illiterate leader in the world. I am so aggravated at that jerk-off and the fact that he can't even say "nuclear" while making a speech. George Bush is an embarrassment not only as a president, but even as an American. George Bush...GO TO HELL!
- Elderon, on 03/06/2008, -5/+12Personally I don't care that he believes God. What I do care about is him letting ***** strategic choices going unchecked because he believes god talked to rummy and gave him his strategies.... thats called not doing you're job
- a6n28f, on 03/06/2008, -1/+8Fallon earned my eternal respect when he told Gen. Petraeus to his face that he considered the general to be,"an ass-kissing little chicken *****." I wonder if Fallon included that in Petraeus' fitrep?
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
http://digg.com/politics/CentCom_Chief_Fallon_Petr ... - tonyma, on 03/06/2008, -1/+8I'm getting more and more scared of this administration every day. Especially now that we've learned about the staggering cost of the Iraq War. So why not fight another war?
- frozenwookie, on 03/06/2008, -0/+6are you ***** retarded?
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+8you mean to say THIS president. if mccain becomes president, we're going to bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran. since mccain is a former pow/war hero, that must mean that EVERYTHING he says is right. because war heros are never wrong.
/sarcasm - pintomp3, on 03/06/2008, -3/+9perhaps you should try using it.
- principle, on 03/06/2008, -8/+14He is not leaving.
- jroyale, on 03/06/2008, -1/+7Yeah... so why don't you go over to thinkprogress and find something where they were so obviously wrong. But be careful, doing all that research might force you to actually learn something - and we wouldn't want that, now would we?
- stretch611, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5That is status quo for Bush. You either agree with everything he says or you have no job. This is true in the Military, Intelligence Agencies, Justice Department, FEMA, his cabinet, and everywhere else in government that Bush has power over.
Being constantly surrounded by "YES MEN" and refusing to listen to any dissenting opinion is a large factor on why he is running the worst administration in history.
Before the Iraq war, all the intelligence said there was WMD, a willingness for Sadamn to use them, and contat with Al Qaida. It was not because of faulty intelligence (the Valerie Plame case showed proof that we did have some good covert intelligence,) but an unwillingness of people at the top to dissent from Bush's preconceived guesses.
No one with even a simplistic concept of strategy would start a war on two fronts. But Bush wanted to get into Iraq so badly, that we did not finish the campaign in Afghanistan first. Even though we did well there initially, because we did not finish the job in order to move most of our forces to Iraq, there is a resurgence of combat over the last year. Again his yes man agreed with him.
Because of Bush's idea that the Iraqi people will welcome us as liberators we did not plan for securing Iraq after capturing the territory. That is why our *leaders* had no plan and they did not want to listen to anyone else. And the ugly result of this is apparent to anyone with two eyes.
Dissenting with Bush gets you fired quickly, agreeing with him allows you to resign with the blame after a few years. - roho76, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5That's why they are going to replace him. Cuz he's a good guy.
Do you think they would have anybody who's competent in that position.
Welcome Vladimir Bush the new CENTCOM Head (he's a little slow but just give him some crayons and paper and he'll be fine). - stretch611, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5Lets see, Bush has a 19% approval rating. That means less then one out of five people do like what he is doing and roughly 4 out of 5 do not like most of the things he does. Are you sure that that digg is biased against Bush? With those numbers it does not take a genius to realize that most people/websites are going to have a negative attitude towards Bush. Only a site that has a positive attitude towards Bush is going to be truly biased.
- GhostyBoy, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6To think these ***** actually have access to nuclear weapons.
Seriously, get off the Iran trip. That is the worst. idea. ever. - Spartan225, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5Dugg, but next time mention the artist you took that lyric from. Immortal Technique - Bin Laden for the first bit. The second same artist but the song is The 4th Branch.
- ZenMojo, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW IT!!! Fallon said he would quit if Bush ever dared to push a war with Iran and I knew it was only a matter of time before Fallon and Bush would butt heads. Fallon: Petraeus is an "asskissing *****." http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
- freezeout, on 03/06/2008, -2/+7Title is misleading. the general is not pro-Iran, he's pro-bombing-Iran. Iran stopped selling its oil in dollars last year and there is no way Bush's puppetmasters will let that slide. As far as the NeoCons are concerned there are only 2 options: watch Iran sink the dollar or bomb the hell out of 'em.
- m0tbaillie, on 03/06/2008, -2/+7HAHAHA What do YOU live, ***** Neverland?
- PHiZ187, on 03/06/2008, -0/+5George Bush is telling the truth that his decisions are made by "the generals on the ground." He just keeps firing generals until they say what he wants to hear.
- Zombi, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6Dugg for scariest article I've seen today.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -1/+6Bush (and friends) ARE trying to take over the world. They might have already succeeded.
- inactive, on 03/06/2008, -2/+7why? who gives a ***** about israel? its possibly the worst country in the world to consider yourself an ally to
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