From: "Mark" 


"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Jim Adams wrote:
>> A retired General is an american citizen. By defintion he is no longer
>> part of the military as he has retired from the military. Thus the
>> "civilian control of the military" canard is just that.
>>
>> Actually, it's a bit questionable.  Retired militray personnel are still
>> subject to the UCMJ.  As long as they get a check.
>>
>>
>>
> Was Eisenhower?
>
> So if Eisenhower dissed his SecDef then he could have been had up on
> charges?
>
> How about any other retired US Mil type who's gone into politics?

They, the retired generals, are exercising their right to speak, no
problem. What they're doing though, is playing on their military experience
for credibility and inferring that same military experience should garner
greater weight than that of their civilian betters that were actually
elected to office in the USA.

The press is eating it up because they don't like Bush or Rumsfeld, so if
we're supposed to take them at their word, that they are all-knowing, as
the press wants us to, fine.

If that is the road we want to take in the USA, then we move into military
dictatorship -- and you think you don't like us now? You ain't seen nothing
yet.

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