[Marine_Uncle]

"This is another nail in the lid of the coffin of the idea that saddam was safely in the Sanction BOx....(must be a better analogy but I am not a writer and this is a War with Lots of Coffins....might as well throw some misguided ideas into the coffins ) Where are the grumbling Generals on this one....?"
You get the point across ok. Your analogy is quite appropriate. As to the grumbling generals. Their to busy grumbling. ha ha. No one should think Rummy was not a tough dog to deal with. He was brought in to start streamlining the military to some degree. Never an easy task. Then 9/11 came our way. Probably from his first day in office he pisse d off some of these guys, and as a result they held a grudge which is now being played out.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Somewhere in that roundtable discussion, someone perhaps Fred brought up the fact that the major reorganization was done on the Army, many generals wanted their million man army and Bush and Rumsfeld wanted an army of half that size, but some of the major complaints are coming from Marine guys, Zunni seems to be very active in calling around.....

Myers told Jim Angle that he didn't understand what all the complaining was about but thought it was very damaging....undermines the traditional civilian control of the Military....