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Posted on 09/25/2006 8:49:55 AM PDT by TexKat
BUMP !!!!
AP is an organization to which thousands of freelance journalists belong. Telling the AP to do something is like telling the NBA that the Clippers made a terrible draft pick.
And your point is? We shouldn't hold them to a standard because they are big??
BTW - welcome to FR.
The news media doesn't know the difference. Ugh!
2 senior commanders in Iraq reassigned
ROBERT BURNS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Two of the Army's top commanders in Iraq have been selected for new assignments.
The second-in-command in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, will become a special assistant to the commander of Central Command with responsibility for developing the military capabilities of nations in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Chiarelli is due to be replaced in Iraq by Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno when Odierno becomes commander of Multi-National Corps-Iraq early next year. Chiarelli had previously commanded the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq.
Also moving on from Iraq will be Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, the 4th Infantry Division commander, who has been chosen for promotion to the rank of lieutenant general and assignment as commander of 5th Corps, the Army's top organization in Europe. Thurman currently is commanding all forces in the Baghdad area.
The 4th Infantry is due to be replaced in Iraq by the 1st Cavalry Division in mid-November.
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who served a tumultuous year in Iraq as 5th Corps commander in 2003-04, relinquished command on Sept. 6 and is retiring soon, according to the U.S. Army Europe Web site. Sanchez had been a candidate to become the next commander of U.S. Southern Command but was passed over after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal exploded into an international controversy. Sanchez has not been accused of any misconduct but has been criticized by some for not doing more to avoid mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners.
There has been no announcement about the next assignment for the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, but he has indicated in recent months that he may not stay much beyond the end of this year.
Also unclear is the future of Gen. John Abizaid, the top commander for U.S. troops throughout the Middle East.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/15606861.htm
Thank you for the painful message of realization that we are indeed in pitch battle in a new type of "world war"...one in which conventional military methods and tactics and even definitions fail us. But one in which the pain and suffering and gruesome losses are nevertheless all too real.
And this one has liberal idiots in pitch battle to discredit our leadership, our sincerety and, at the same time, disregard that Russia ,China, and most all Muslim nations as well as virtually all UN countries are in it against us along with our disloyal MSM.
Terrorist propaganda continues to pit our citizens against each other and divide our government leaders to the point of paralysis and no alterrnative agenda other than surrender and ultimate defeat by an enemy who has sworn to slaughter every man woman an child of us in a genocide of a scale never recorded before.
It your'e a little uncomfortable about all this you are probably among the few sane Americans left.
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I'm stupified and can't believe a rational person would think such a thing is possible - - let alone suggest it be attempted.
well they at least didn't have to announce it. Tell the people who needed to know, and let the media find out for themselves. The MSM is so lazy they probably never would have , if they didn't have a press release.
If you've served in the military you're aware of the importance of building trust up and down the chain of command. What you propose would only break that trust, and morale would end up in the crapper.
balch3,
Yes, that's a great idea you have there. /sarc
In addition to what leadpenny said...
The info would have leaked out one way or the other guaranteed. In past instances of this type of thing I've seen spouses/parents of military personnel complaining on tv/in print when this happens (& why, oh why, their spouse/child doesn't tell them to not do any such thing before they do it or if they do their relatives don't listen to them, I have no idea) or some anti-war nut-job/nut-org that keeps track of deployments notices that personnel that were scheduled to be back aren't back & then tells MSM. And the longer it was kept on the QT the greater the chances of MSM yelling "cover-up" or some such. "Hiding" this type of thing is usually not a good idea.
cookcounty,
Yes in the "generic" sense Marines are soldiers, however, a Marine should always be called a Marine.
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