From: "Robert G Lewis" 

I have  reservations about active duty personnel engaging in politics (
other than voting). As long as they don't spill operational details, secret
information etc I do think retired officers should have the same right to
criticize as the rest of us do. I think it would be very useful to actually
look at the criticisms there people have made rather than just ruling them
out. I will even say that Rumsfeld has some good ideas and some valid
points with all his shortcomings ( I know we may disagree on that
)

I had dome some looking for the breakdown of retired Flag Officers by year
but have had no luck finding anything. Just active duty numbers.


"Mark"  wrote in message news:44418f7b{at}w3....
> Oh, I'm not interested enough to do that much research! I was just curious
> if the "thousands" number was credible from any point of
view of at all
> and didn't even go looking for that, it just fell into my lap from one
> click or another. 
>
> This I do know, we have a civilian in control of our military and it's out
> of line for active or retired generals to call for his firing in the
> press. If we wanted generals to call the shots we'd have written the
> constitution differently. I mean like, we're not going to set up an extra
> 6 desks in the oval office and let these retired military guys call the
> shots, are we?
>
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:44418e53{at}w3....
>> That's a believable number for retired Generals and Admirals. How many
>> retired in the last 5 years which is what Rumsfeld commented on in the
>> DOD transcript?
>

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