Posted on 04/26/2006 3:26:53 PM PDT by Renfield
VLWC ping.
AHA!! It IS Zinni who is head of the soft coup!! HANG EM HIGH!!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember hearing that retired .mil personnell are still subject to UCMJ. And part of that is to yank their $$ if they pull a dumb stunt like this. Even if true, it would appear that US Laws aren't meant to be enforced, just passed. Oh well.
Tells a lot about the founder of CDI.
...the fact that we're now up to eight retired generals who represents less then one tenth of one percent of retired generals. We're talking pat buchanan for President numbers here.
Holy rattling H! The LaRoque group is still around? And still recruiting useful idiots wearing stars?
Just what do these ba$tards want, anyway? The downfall of the United States!!?
(yes, too many !!s and ??s) ;^)
Thanks for the ping. The Center for Defense Information is an anti-american think-tank that tries to undermine the American military. I hope more and more people will recognize it for what it is.
Interesting((((Ping)))) . Did not know this about the CDI.
The Defense Department waves away the protesting generals as just a handful out of more than 8,000 now serving or retired. That seems to me too dismissive. These generals are no doubt correct in asserting that they have spoken to and speak on behalf of some retired and, even more important, some active-duty members of the military.
But that makes the generals' revolt all the more egregious. The civilian leadership of the Pentagon is decided on Election Day, not by the secret whispering of generals.
We've always had discontented officers in every war and in every period of our history. But they rarely coalesce into factions. That happens in places such as Hussein's Iraq, Pinochet's Chile or your run-of-the-mill banana republic. And when it does, outsiders (including the United States) do their best to exploit it, seeking out the dissident factions to either stage a coup or force the government to change policy.
That kind of dissident party within the military is alien to America. Some other retired generals have found it necessary to rise to the defense of the administration. Will the rest of the generals, retired or serving, now have to declare which camp they belong to?
It is precisely this kind of division that our tradition of military deference to democratically elected civilian superiors was meant to prevent.
Today it suits the antiwar left to applaud the rupture of that tradition. But it is a disturbing and very dangerous precedent that even the left will one day regret.
...Charles Krauthammer
Thank you for the ping. It is very nice that we think of each other. I hope that you and yours are well.
The CDI story is a classic.
The first generation works hard, is driven by a dream and a spirit 24/7 to accomplish their goals.
The second generation might have a little of the dream, very little spirit, and maybe works some.
The third generation has the trust fund with no instructions from the grandfather.
The Ford Foundation, the NY Times, and many others have lost their original American spirit. They often neither care nor understand.
There are exceptions, but I believe that the above is 80 percent true. Sad.
I got a heads up from a lurker friend about a conservative site which has reviewed these patriotic sounding groups, which hate America and in particuliar GW and our military.
The site is PDF form, and my browser will not let me paste the date here.
This report does a great job of showing how liberal these a$$holes are and how they have been attacking GW before he became president.
Below is the link of the Capital Research Center. By the way George $oreA$$ has contributed money and probably other resources to the anti American Coup Plotters
http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/06_04_OT.pdf#search='The%20Center%20for%20Defense%20Information%20%20%20Soros'
Do you know of a utility that can convert .pdf files into MS word files?
No I don't. I really don't like PDF files.
Do you know of a utility that can convert .pdf files into MS word files?
Commercial: http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2word/pdf-to-doc.html
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