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I refer you to replies # 6
"I appreciate that, but the evolution into this critic of the military industrial complex WAS stuck in the 1960's. I remember the first Gulf war in '91 where he predicted the biggest proportional bloodbath for America since the Alamo. I knew then that he was (as the Charlie Daniels song goes) Still in Saigon. He forgot that all the young officers from 'Nam who were disgusted by that conflict then, were suddenly in charge and determined to DO IT RIGHT. When the massacre he predicted did not in fact come to pass, he was left with egg on his face. Did he learn from this? Uh-uh. He continued to make the same dire predictions as if he were the only voice in the wilderness with the strategic and tactical savvy to conduct war."

#9
" Hackworth had a trouble with identifying the 'enemy'. He rightly tagged some senior military officials as 'perfumed princes', but then turns right around and supports....Gen. Wesley Clark for President. I mean, c'mon Hack, Clark's picture is in the dictionary right next to the definition of 'perfumed prince'! Hack talked a good game but in the end he didn't put his money where his mouth was."

#10
"Its not possible to characterize Hackworth's career in the media without mentioning his role in the suicide of Admiral Jeremy Boorda."

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Colonel David Hackworth; A Misguided Warrior
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Posted on 03/22/2005 6:43:57 PM CST by SwinneySwitch
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368360/posts

I'm sorry he's dead, and I honor those medals he won, BUT he read and believed his press clipping.