The General's Revolt (Pat Buchanan finally makes sense.)

Townhall ^ | April 21, 2006 | Pat Buchanan

[pierrem15]

Heh. Pat forgot to add that the re-enlistment rate is at record levels in combat units because they are all eager to continue fighting for a losing cause.

Pat belongs on the same gallows as the hate America-left.

[Mogollon]

Nope. Pat is wrong yet again.

Golda Meir had the same situation with Moshe Dayan and she said something to the effect that if she fires Dayan their enemies will look on it as a victory. Besides Rummy is an excellent Sec'y of Defense.

[M203M4]

Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs up to the eve of war, charges Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith with a "casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions – or bury the results."

DING DING DING, yup, this is the work of Buchanan. Hahahahahaha.

[capt. norm]

Pat shops for too many of his ideas at "LibMart".

[ansel12]

As an ex Buchanan fan, 3 or 4 years ago I was wondering what he would do to regain his place in the sun, since he had become something similar to an Ariana Huffington.

I notice that he is every where on the television now, so he clearly learned how to ingratiate him self to the left. As long as he remains useful to the MSM he will have the attention he so clearly craves.

[DH]

"Rumsfeld should resign because the administration is losing the war on the home front..."

No. Political Correctness (PC), sensitivity, diversity and all other actions that mean WEAKNESS are losing the war.

No matter who's in charge, these weaknesses will lose the war just like they have since WWII.

[Wristpin]

Yet retention remains high especially among those who have deployed to Iraq. Hmmm...

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Clinton warned a group of retiring generals (who retired because they were disgusted with him) that he would confiscate their retirement pay unless they kept quiet about why they retired.

That is pure, unadulterated, BS. The President cannot confiscate military retirement pay.

[zbigreddogz]

The no-win war in Korea?

Yah, I forgot how badly we lost that.

Oh, wait...no we didn't.

[liberallarry]

Gcochran - posting to this forum - predicted all of this back in 2003, in the run-up to the war. He felt that the Muslim threat was small and could be contained with inspections and sanctions, that no WMD would be found and the Administration knew it, and that Rumsfeld was an arrogant, abrasive know-it-all who would alienate everyone.

I thought he was wrong about the magnitude of the threat and still hope he was wrong about everything else as well. I expect disagreement when the stakes are so high and the outcome unclear. It's up to the President to find the right course. That's what he was elected to do.

[dighton]

It’s all over the place, including (no surprise) Raimondo’s dump.

[Admin Moderator]

Thanks for the link. no dems, you must provide a link to the article. Otherwise, it is subject to being pulled entirely.

[zbigreddogz]

What, are you insinuating Buchannan is anti-semetic?

What would make you think that?

I mean, there is the fact that he's against Israel every single time there is a conflict in the region, even though they are the only democracy in the area, and that he blames Jews for everything that he deems wrong with America...

But other then that, no anti-semitism here!

[ARCADIA]

These generals have no business drawing military retirement pay, probably finding cushy civilian jobs as figureheads, and stabbing the president in the back at the same time.

I don't really care about the generals retirement pay, I want to know whether there is any merit to what they are saying. If this problem turns out to be real the reprocussions are going to be much hotter then the heated air put out by a handfull of retired officers. The hand wringing over Abu Garib and Guantanimo, and the fact that Sadr is still sucking in air, make it pretty clear that we are fighting an overly PC war. Perhaps that can work this time around; but if not, then the administration should turn iraq over to a single officer and order him to settle Iraq within 360 days - even if he has to kill every living thing in that country.

The original objective had nothing to do with nation building. We needed to go into Iraq to deprive radical Islamic terrorist of physical, technical, and monetary support flowing to them from Iraq. That is what we should be focused on; and, we should be clear that that can be done with Iraqis or without them.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

If we'd won Korea, Kim Jong-Il wouldn't be so ronery.

[Dog Gone]

Ack! You're probably going to get suspended for a week for mentioning that hellhole.

[listenhillary]

Victor Davis Hanson: Globalization, Ancient and Modern
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1618383/posts

Not sure why I bother, you won't comprehend the big picture if it hits you in the face.

[dighton]

He ronery for obvious reason.