Eaton has been a useful fool/tool for the Dims for more than a decade, for the usual reasons. After the invasion of Iraq, Eaton was given the job of rebuilding the Iraqi military. A herculean task, to be sure, and it quickly became apparent that General Eaton wasn’t up to the job. He was fired by Don Rumsfeld, and voila, Eaton emerges as a critic of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration.
Incidentally, the guy who replaced Eaton in that job was David Petraeus. To be sure, Petraeus has his own issues, but he was far more effective in the training mission (and other assignments) than Eaton was. And of course, Eaton’s dismissal from that important post is never mentioned by his friends in the media—or the Democrat party.
Universally disliked by every officer and enlisted that served within 10 miles of his elitist ass.
This guy thought (and probably still does) that he had some sort of manifest destiny and tried to outdo Napoleon in the "ruling" department.
His stupid ass liberal/progressive demands and orders led to the debacles we saw in training of the Iraqis in '03-'04.
Real piece of shit.
I would normally express much respect for any man that achieved GO status, but this bastard, in my opinion, he should never have gotten beyond Cadet.
Many, many good men were destroyed by this ass on his climb to the "top", which was denied him, since he had his heart and mind set on being the JCS.
Fat chance.