Posted on 08/09/2004 11:55:13 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) - Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early years of the Clinton administration, has been hospitalized in guarded condition at an Army hospital here, a spokesman said Monday.
Shalikashvili, 68, entered Madigan Medical Center on Saturday morning, and the family is requesting that no more information be released, said Mike Meines, a hospital spokesman.
Shalikashvili served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the Clinton administration from 1993, the year Clinton took office, until 1997, when the general retired from the Army.
At a gathering honoring Shalikashvili when he retired, President Clinton pointed out that he made the recommendations that sent U.S. troops into harm's way in Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, the Persian Gulf and a host of other world hotspots that had proliferated since the end of the Cold War.
"In every conversation we ever had," Clinton said at the time, "he never minced words, he never postured or pulled punches, he never shied away from tough issues or tough calls, and most important, he never shied away from doing what he believed was the right thing."
Shalikashvili's willingness to commit U.S. forces to crises in remote countries rarely if ever seen on the list of "vital national interests" set him apart from his better-known predecessor, Gen. Colin Powell.
Earlier, under President George H.W. Bush, Shalikashvili served as NATO's supreme allied commander and also commander in chief of all U.S. armed forces in Europe. At the end of the first Gulf War, he was in charge of the Kurdish relief operation in Iraq.
He came to the United States in 1952 from his native Poland when he was 16. He enlisted in the Army six years later, beginning his rise through the ranks.
He and his wife, Joan, moved to Steilacoom, near the Army base south of Tacoma, in 1998.
Shalikashvili's willingness to commit U.S. forces to crises in remote countries rarely if ever seen on the list of "vital national interests" set him apart from his better-known predecessor, Gen. Colin Powell.
Clinton butt-boy...
That's all that matters.
an activist general.. ?
Was he struck by lightning for telling lies?
I thought he was Estonian, although a Georgian swore he was Georgian. (No, not like Scarlet, like in SSR.)
Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili gestures in this July 28, 2004, file photo at the FleetCenter in Boston during the Democratic National Convention. Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early years of the Clinton administration, has been hospitalized in guarded condition at an Army hospital at Fort Lewis, Wash., a spokeman said Monday, Aug. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
CN 18F can fill in some of the details about this including the power struggle between 10th and the always colorful, always controversial Col. Kater.
Arkancide?
Wouldn't send troops to bring Scott Spiecher home.
Didn't want them "to die collecting a bunch of bones".
Clintonization of the military.
There are Georgians living in Poland.
That's funny because in 1994 the head of the Estonian military (their equivalent to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs) was a retired Estonian-Born retired U.S. Army Colonel. I knew I guy who trying to do business with them and he thought that Shalikashvili was Estonian as well and I think he got that impression from the Estonians.
He was born in Poland in 1936 and his family emigrated to Illinois in 1952.
He never lived in Estonia and doesn't have any connections there.
His father fought for the Nazis in WWII, but his father served in the Ukraine and in Normandy, not in the Baltics.
He was involved in talks with Estonia prior to their joining NATO when he served as SACEUR.
Thanks.
Gen. John Shalikashvili, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was in intensive care on August 9, 2004 at an Army hospital in Tacoma, Washington, after suffering a massive stroke, officials said. Shalikashvili, 68, who was the U.S. military's top official between 1993 and 1997, waves to the delegation after taking the stage on the third night of the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 28, 2004. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn/File
Whatever the man's politics, I think that we should honor him for his service. He wore our countries uniform faithfully for a long long time.
countries=country's AAARGGGHHHHH
President Clinton (news - web sites) and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell (news - web sites) look on as Army Gen. John Shalikashvili speaks in the Rose Garden in this Aug. 11, 1993, file photo. Retired Army Gen. Shalikashvili, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early years of the Clinton administration, has been hospitalized in guarded condition at an Army hospital at Fort Lewis, Wash., a spokeman said Monday, Aug. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
"In every conversation we ever had," Clinton said at the time, "he never minced words, he never postured or pulled punches, he never shied away from tough issues or tough calls, and most important, he never shied away from doing what he believed was the right thing."
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