Col. Hackworth: Time for Straight Talk

Col. Hackworth will likely be supporting the Clark team all the way to the WH.

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Hacks%20Target%20Homepage.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=31&rnd=236.60431480416417

On the two-year anniversary of 9/11, both the hardliners within the administration and the chicken hawks on the airwaves are stubbornly continuing to blame the strikes on Saddam, painting his tyrannical regime as a major player in the Islamic fundamentalist jihad to maintain support for our gigantic misadventure in Iraq. It was the same sort of scare tactics the manipulators used during the Vietnam War when they kept asserting that a defeat there would be the key domino falling and we’d soon be defending the beaches of the West Coast from invading commies.

Once again, most Americans – including a lot of red-faced lawmakers – have fallen for the old Hitler trick: Tell a lie often enough and the people will believe it.

The losers are our soldiers still stuck in the sand, the scores of fallen warriors who were quietly buried from “sea to shining sea,” the hundreds of maimed who are maxing out our military hospitals, and the American taxpayers who’ll be laying out big bucks for a war against terrorism that has struck the wrong target.

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Hackworth hates Wesley Clark. Here's just one of his many columns blasting Clark:
http://www.hackworth.com/12jun01.html

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Recently retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, who's now busy bad-mouthing the Pentagon for his screwing up the Serbian War, is one of the new corporate-general types. Clark, with a total of seven years with troops out of 33 years of service, spent the other 26 years punching his corporate ticket in "career essential assignments" such as getting a graduate degree, serving in the White House, being a general's aide and doing time on high staffs. All were critical punches for him if he wanted to wear stars in our modern Army.
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like troop assignments and wearing the correct medals in the correct way in one's photo.

I've never been a fan of Clinton's and have written published letters highly critical of him. That doesn't mean I'm going to choose any yahoo like Bush over him.

Clark can't begin to negatively compare to Bush when it comes to the destruction of the military.

And wait till unit rotation kicks in, when the army is put on 6 - 12 month unaccompanied tours in idyllic locations like Poland, Bulgaria and Romania w/the family sent stateside to tough out the defunded public school systems and lack of base support.

Clark is Christ-like next to Bush.

I was just pointing out that Hackworth won't be supporting Clark. He has been outspoken in his vitriol against Clark.

...say it goes Dean/Clark and Bush/Cheney?

Chuck Yeager spoke poorly of Neil Armstrong....he thought Armstrong was a lousy pilot. Armstrong got to go to the moon, Yeager didn't. There's always going to be internecine rivalry among the higher ranks. Who better to criticize them?

Hackworth said there was a bleeding of quality soldiers when Clark was in charge. That was when the economy was good, so there were good paying jobs to entice military members outside their military profession.

Now the economy stinks, but that still won't stop the hemorrhaging of soldiers, who will give a thumbs-down to reenlistment as soon as they're able. W/the Iraq debacle, military folk are swearing to get out as soon as the Bushies redeploy them home, whenever that is.

Hackworth wasn't receiving 500 letters a week (or is it per day?) when Clinton and Clark were in charge. He is now.

Next week's Hackworth epistle should be interesting, no? :)

the more callous, arrogant and indifferent bush* becomes to the deaths of our troops. Lynn Cheney was parroting the line this morning on ABC, that we have protect our country. As if to say, Saddam attacked America. Jesse Ventura had one good line on Bill Maher friday night.Alot of people support our troops in Iraq, as long as it is'nt their kids. He also said why not draft the bush twins.

...with all the other warmongers, like the war criminal McCaffrey when it looked like the slaughter in Iraq was "successful."

His critical faculties reasserted themselves when his nightly cable appearances came to an end.

BTW, how did Kerry, who supported the war, react--this isn't a rhetorical question.

I hope he'll vocally support the Democratic nominee against Bush in the general election. :)

It sounds like he will support the Democrat. I can't see any reason why he wouldn't. I hope he'll do it vocally.

destroys the military for no good reason.