A fourth senior US General is calling for Rumsfeld's head.
A fourth former US army general in less than a month today called on the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to resign over his handling of the war in Iraq. Retired Major General John Batiste - who commanded the US 1st Infantry Division in Iraq from 2004 until last year - criticised Mr Rumsfeld's authoritarian style and called for a "fresh start" at the top of the Pentagon.
"We need leadership up there that respects the military as they expect the military to respect them. And that leadership needs to understand teamwork," Maj Gen Batiste said. He told CNN he believed the Bush administration's handling of the war had violated fundamental military principles such as unity of command and unity of effort.
How different would the world be if these four men (and the others who agree with them) had stood their ground in 2002 and 2003. This abusrd attack may not have ever taken place, and if it had, there is a chance that if would not be the abject failure that it is right now.
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Thank you for stopping by my blog for a visit - and can I just say Amen to what you have said. Let's all get together so that we can think of peaceful ways to get rid of dictators and allow people to live free and creative lives. That package called War is too easy to take off the shelf and implement. Whereas, where is that easily implemented package labelled Peace?
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