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Title: Hold Bush responsible (LETTER TO STARS & STRIPES)
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Stars & Stripes
URL Source: http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=44345
Published: Mar 16, 2007
Author: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Allen Crews (ret
Post Date: 2007-03-16 16:54:55 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 144
Comments: 12
Hold Bush responsible It was with disbelief that I read “Reflection of pride” (letter, March 6) — another Bush regime apologist with comprehension problems. I’m unsure how taking care of troops became “ignore facts, get stupid and follow blindly.” From the grossly negligent “planning” for the invasion to the current shameful care for wounded veterans, this administration has used soldiers as a politically charged club to subdue and vilify any type of opposition or rational judgment against the (failed) ideas and plans of the president. Compare the treatment of Gen. Erik Shinseki, then chief of staff of the Army, and Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the invasion forces. When Shinseki answered a congressional committee with the truth about post-invasion Iraq (needing hundreds of thousands of troops to secure it) he was publicly denounced and said to be out of the loop. Whereas the commander of the invasion forces was allowed to retire while the rest of the military was under stop-loss rules, Baghdad was in chaos, the arming of the insurgency was well under way and the only tangible thing completed was the removal of Saddam Hussein’s statue. Who supported his soldiers — the truth-teller or the one who cut and ran away? How can the truth be used against us unless the truth is worse than fiction? The hollow, virulent ravings of current and former leaders have created a “live” training area for the enemy, sucked billions of dollars out of the economy, killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and killed or maimed thousands of Americans. It is time to hold the commander in chief responsible for his inept decisions (“I’m the decider”) and bring an end to this shameful chapter in America history. President Clinton was impeached over perjury; I think what the current president has done is quite a bit worse. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Allen Crews (retired)
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
Sir, No Sir, bump
Kiss that pension check goodbye, Bubba.
Only a court martial can take that pension away from CWO2 Crews, and the last retired officer to face a court martial was Admiral Hooper, back in the fifties.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Since when has the Bush administration let rules, regulations or laws get in its way?
Donald Trump goes off on President Bush in a scathing attack during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on the Friday edition of CNN's 'Situation Room. "Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States. And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election." MORE... "Everything in Washington has been a lie. Weapons of mass destruction, it was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq, which he thought was going to be easy and it turned out to be the exact opposite of easy. He reads 60 books a year. He reads a book a week. Do you think the president reads a book a week? I don't think so. He doesn't watch television. Now, one thing I know is when I'm on television, I watch, or I try. You do. Your own ego says, let's watch. Whether good or bad, you want to watch. He doesn't watch television. He's on television being interviewed by you or someone else, he doesn't watch. Does anyone really believe that?" Trump also goes off on Senator Hillary Clinton and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
It isn't clear that they did lose it, Mr. Trump.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
None of the "problems" this solider cites in Iraq would exist if the media didn't report it. Or so the "thinking" goes among BOTS.
Interesting tag, How's the book comming? Is it accessible? My Grandfather had the set in his library, I may have looked at a few pages when I was 12 yo or so. Seemed rather comprehensive. I remember eight or twelve volumes.
That's it isn't it? We just haven't been cheery enough about the maiming and destruction all for the empowerment of a small clique.
Macaulay's History was originally published in four volumes, and the Everyman's Library edition I am reading has the same four volumes. I'm about at the end of the first volume, and I got to the passage in my new tag yesterday.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
That is my "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" publisher that I own and am giving a copy to my cousin so he will always have something good to read. Intrested Everyman's has the Macaulay's handy. Let me know your thoughts of it's worth in a month or so, If You Please kind Sir.
Oh please. Laws are for little people. Dictators don't have to answer to "laws", they ARE the law. Grow up already buddy.
#2. To: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Allen Crews retired (#0)
#3. To: Esso (#2)
#4. To: aristeides (#3)
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
According to the Drudge:
#6. To: angle (#5)
And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election."
#7. To: aristeides (#0)
#8. To: aristeides (#6)
#9. To: Burkeman1 (#7)
None of the "problems" this solider cites in Iraq would exist if the media didn't report it. Or so the "thinking" goes among BOTS.
#10. To: tom007 (#8)
#11. To: aristeides (#10)
(Edited)
e Everyman's Library edition I
#12. To: aristeides (#0)
President Clinton was impeached over perjury; I think what the current president has done is quite a bit worse.
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