Four U.S. Military Newspapers Will Call For Rumsfeld's Removal

[TankGirl]

All Headline News:

Washington (AHN) - According to reports, four military newspapers will publish an editorial on Monday that seeks the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from the Bush administration.

CNN reported that the newspapers, serving the four major branches of the U.S. military, all plan to publish an editorial, which was posted Saturday on the Website for the Army Times.

Further, that Web site states that Rumsfeld "has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large."

It adds, "His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt."

CNN reported that the editorial would appear Monday in the four weekly publications, Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and the Marine Corps Times.

The article adds that President George W. Bush, Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld have made "one rosy reassurance after another," such as "mission accomplished," the insurgency is "in its last throes," and "back off."

It said that the U.S. military generally "toed the line," but a few retired generals eventually spoke out from the safety of the sidelines.

The editorial said, "Now, however, a new chorus of criticism is beginning to resonate. Active-duty military leaders are starting to voice misgivings about the war's planning, execution and dimming prospects for success."

But the editorial said the call for the resignation of Rumsfeld is not tied to the midterm elections on Tuesday.

[JackSpratts]

why stop with rummy. can his boss.

- js.

[multi]

which one ?

Cheney knew it would be a senseless waste of human life to try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIe1...elated&search=

^1991 Cheney says any occupation of Iraq would be a 'Quagmire'

George Snr. knew also. but it's a bit late to sack him, I guess


In 1998, former President George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor during the Bush administration, collaborated on the book A World Transformed, a political history covering significant world events which occurred during the first three years of Bush's presidency (1989-1991): the collapse of the Soviet empire, the unification of Germany, Tienanmen Square, and the Gulf War.

In Chapter 19, which discusses the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War (also known as "Desert Storm," the military operation to liberate Kuwait from occupation by invading Iraqi forces), they wrote:

Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.


Rumsfeld was in the whitehouse back when they landed on the moon . He probably got hired sometime in the 50's ,whoever hired him is probably long gone


PS . JS you edited your post.. LOL

[daddydirt]

http://www.atpco.com/history.html

quite misleading, as these newspapers have no association to any branch of the military whatsoever. they are civilian owned and operated.

Gannett Co., Inc. = USA Today