From: Adam 

"incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically"

Shows how close Bush & Blair are.......how odd that those are the sorts
of words which UK mil types also use about the Bush-Blair axis.

Just need to find out how Oz mil types view Howard.

Adam

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> First the retired generals despised Rummy and now it appears the active duty
> ones have caught the anti-Rummy virus
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2375105,00.html
> DONALD RUMSFELD, the US Defence Secretary, is facing a new challenge to his
> authority after the US Army's Chief of Staff refused to submit a budget plan
> for 2008 in protest at the demands the Pentagon is placing on America's
> overstretched military.
> General Peter Shoomaker's behind-closed-doors challenge was disclosed
> yesterday as another wave of criticism was launched - this time at a forum
> conducted by Senate Democrats - from a group of ex-Generals who have already
> called for Mr Rumsfeld to quit after six years as Defence Secretary.
>
>
>
> General Schoomaker took the highly unusual step last month of delaying
> submission of the Army's budget plan, arguing that the service requires
> either a much bigger budget than the Administration has proposed or relief
> from some of its worldwide commitments.
>
>  ...
>
> Yesterday three retired military generals bluntly accused Mr Rumsfeld of
> bungling the war in Iraq, saying that US troops were sent to fight without
> the best equipment, and that critical facts were hidden from the public. "I
> believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Administration did not
> tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in
> Iraq," retired Major General John Batiste said.
>
> It is rare for retired military officers to criticise the Pentagon while
> military operations are under way, particularly at a public event likely to
> draw widespread media attention.
>
> A second military leader, retired Major General Paul Eaton, assessed Mr
> Rumsfeld as "incompetent strategically, operationally and
tactically". "Mr
> Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we will see two more
> years of extraordinarily bad decision-making," he said.
>
>

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