[PJ-Comix]

SHEESH!!! Talk about POOR timing for an article! Here is a typical quote:

Now we're stuck in the Iraqi quicksand in a soon-to-be burning desert with guerrillas tearing up our rear, doing unto our troops whatever unconventional fighters did to the French at Moscow, the Germans at Stalingrad, the Americans in Vietnam and Somalia, the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Russians in Chechnya.

Yeah, Hack, the Iraq campaign is some disaster. Today we captured Saddam airport among such "disasters." Perhaps Hackworth can try to escape the humiliation for being so wrong in this article by claiming it was just an April Fools joke. Just look at the date it was published.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

What on earth did Rumsfeld ever do to Hackworth? Take his parking spot? Cheat at poker? Flip him off in traffic? Forget to return a power tool?

What!?

I'm not the biggest Rumsfeld fan myself, but give Rumsfeld credit where credit is due.

[dead]

This article is sooooooo March 31st.

[tubebender]

I saw Tom DeLay call them "Blow Dried Napoleons" today. ( referring to all the hasbeens on TV)

[Mark Hamilton]

I'm glad Hackworth retired sometime ago. Its unfortunate when observers, once considered innovative, become fossilized in their "lessons" from previous wars.

Ironically, I was once in the "we did it all wrong" camp and advocated overwhelming force, forgeting that that what we really need are victory stratgies, regardless of the approach.

In Vietnam we did rely too much on technology, air support, and piecemeal committment WITHOUT a victory strategy- all wrong for the era. But Hackworth has not changed with the times. We have replaced the diffuse, slowly applied, firepower with speed, manuver, and pin-point destruction.

In Vietnam we fought to destroy their will to fight, but never dared cross their borders or approach their capital to destroy their means. We were unable to find their forces when they chose not to fight, they had santuary in Laos and Cambodia. And the will to fight of our own allies was always compromised by our indifferent results and collatoral civilan damage.

There will be a war someday when we need eight, or ten, or twenty divisions - but this is not one of them. If Hackworth believes that we underestimated the enemys will to fight or tactics, then it only proves how strong the war plan was; i.e. we are winning anyway at record speed.

Of course, it is Hackworth that does not understand. Four more divisions would have been irrelevant to city holdouts - unless the purpose is to make them Que' (way). There will to fight is now irrelevant, because our combat power is destroying their means.

Hackworth is showing his age, it may be time for him to retire from public life as well.

[hotpotato]

Oh NO! It's... IRAQ QUICKSAND!

Ruuuunn... Hackworth! Ruuuuunn!

[SamiGirl]

Yo, Col. Hack, sit down and shut up. You're obsolete.

[Billthedrill]

Sad. Truly sad - the guy has paid his dues, but sometimes that just isn't enough. Time, I think, for this old soldier to do some fading away.

[Swampmarine]

Retired Air Force LGEN McInerney on FOX has been right on the money for several weeks now. He was never one of the naysayers, called the plan brilliant early, and has been supportive and positive since day one. I always had the feeling that he was just a little better tuned-in than the rest of them. Maybe that's why he got three stars.

[Swampmarine]

Retired Air Force LGEN McInerney on FOX has been right on the money for several weeks now. He was never one of the naysayers, called the plan brilliant early, and has been supportive and positive since day one. I always had the feeling that he was just a little better tuned-in than the rest of them. Maybe that's why he got three stars.

[hotpotato]

Hackworth on Larry King now: "There's no question that we would win this war. This is Paul Bunyan with a sledge hammer trying to kill some ants in an anthill."

[RJayneJ]

Hey, I looked at the date. April Fool's joke. Right?

[Ole Okie]

Hackworth is on Larry King right now STILL being very critical ("We didn't have enough troops on the ground", etc etc, bitch bitch bitch).

The guy has lost it. I'm sorry for him, but he shouldn't be presented as any sort of expert.

[wcbtinman]

The transformation of Hackworth has been amazing. I think he needs to check his blood sugar.

It's sad to see him become as non-relevant as the UN.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

hack has turned into such a hack I won't even bother reading this article.

[Bullish]

Someone needs to inform Hackworth that it's way passed time for him to shut his mouth about this war.

American lives are on the line and he's not helping at all.

[OriginalV]

Now if I remember correctly, I belive we had 6 US divisions that fought the first Gulf, and that's not counting additional coaliton forces.

For the most part we have been operating with 1 infantry division and 1 armored division, not counting coaltion forces, and were still whopping butt. Now we all know that the only reason this war broke the 100hr mark to was to keep Iraqi civilians deaths at a bare minimum.

Funny though how hackysack left those points out.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What an absolutely idiotic column. This definitely gives credence to the earlier FR threads that said Hackworth is a Democrat. I believe it.

[Reagan Man]

This article is preposterous.

David Hackworth has gone way off the reservation with this rant. Hack seems to forget, the 100 hours of ground combat in the Gulf War was preceeded by 40 days of heavy and intense bombing of Republican Guard units. Operation Iraqi Freedom is only 15 days old and Allied Forces have made significant progress. We are winning this war Hack. Get a grip.

[Rocky]

I'm glad I'm not this guy's book publisher. Stop the presses! (And send what's already been printed back to the pulp mill.)

"This message printed on recycled Hackworth books."

[11B3]

Time for Hack to change the initials of his website to STFU - and then repeat that to himself over and over until he goes away.